Januari 10, 2010  The success of English learning is seen
generally through the speaking ability. Nowadays, although
learners have learned English for years, many of them are still
incapable to use English orally. These may be caused by the
limitation of opportunity to practice, lack of vocabulary, or
psychological factors which more concern to the fear of making
mistakes when speaking English. This fear feeling comes up from
the low self-concept they have. Someone with low self-concept is
believed to be unconfident, while confidence is needed by
learners to present their English orally (Coopersmith in Bintang
Bangsaku: 2008). This psychological factor influenced the
learners’ ability in speaking. Based on the problem above, the
writer would like to find out learners’ self-concept and
speaking ability, and whether there is a correlation between
self-concept which is one of psychological factor and their
English speaking ability of Primagama English for students
class. The design of this research was correlati