THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNER’S SELFESTEEM AND THEIR SPEAKING SKILLS

Abstract

The current dissertation aims to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and EFL students’ oral performance. The main concern of this research paper is to figure out whether self esteem influences the students’ speaking skill. Therefore, this research aims to critically evaluate and analyze three articles from two different contexts dealing with EFL students’ speaking skills. Our study is mainly based on the thematic analysis of literature review method. The data were collected and analyzed using a qualitative analytic technique to answer research questions. We used the selected articles as a source of collecting data for this research in order to reveal the correlation between students ‘self-esteem and their speaking competencies. Our study aims to look on how students' self-esteem can improve their oral performance and classroom involvement, as well as the role of teachers in encouraging students to talk and increasing their self-confidence to make them feel more secure. The findings of the articles found that if English language learners possess high self-esteem, they will have a better oral performance. The results obtained from the collected data showed, to a great extent, the positive relationship between the variables. As a result, the data analysis indicates the importance of self-esteem in the development of learners' oral performance and learning the speaking skill.