STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PERFORMANCES WITH DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES

This study deals with students’ speaking peformances with different personalities. It aims at finding out how speaking performances of extrovert and introvert students are and why they speak the way they are. This study was conducted in qualitative method of which design was descriptive case study. The sources of data for this study were 31 students of class B 2015, majoring English Literature in State University of Medan (UNIMED); meanwhile the data was taken from students’ utterances and performances in speaking class. The data was analyzed by using Interactive Model by Miles, Huberman, and Saldana. To find out the types of personalities, the researcher used theory of Eysenck, to assess the students’ speaking performances, the researcher used indicators suggested by Bachman and Alderson, while to find out the reasons why the students speak the way they are, researcher used theory of Latha and Ramesh. Based on the data analysis, the first finding shows that extrovert students can gain good fluency and interaction, but they are lack in range, accuracy, and coherence. Meanwhile, introvert students can gain good range, accuracy, and coherence, they are lack of fluency and interaction. And as the second finding, it was found four factors why extrovert students spoke the way they were namely lack of subject matter, family background, lack of motivation, and friendship/ relationship influence. Meanwhile, introvert students speak the way they are due to three factors namely learner inhibition, family background and writing and reading habit.