Abstract :
In modern English language teaching today, relating individually with the
students on academic basis and trying to learn more about the students?
personalities is important. Here, because the personality of the student appears to
be in the core of the education issue as the affective factor to be scored and
reported. Personality can affect the way the students? learn. Personality in this
case are extrovert and introvert. The researcher found that even the students who
active, tend to interact with friends in the language class, still made errors on
spelling some words writing. By this case, the researcher interest to investigate the
correlation between extroversion, introversion personality types and writing skill
by conducting a quantitative correlation study at Khamphee Wittaya School,
Bannang sata.
In this study, the researcher chose the 12th grade students of Khamphee
Wittaya School as the subject of study. The data was collected by using
questionnaire and document. The questionnaire was used to get the answer of the
students? personality, extrovert and introvert. The document was used to get the
score of English writing skill. After gained the data, the reearcher analyzed the
data by using statistical of SPSS and used Spearman?s rho as the formulation to
get the data result.
The research finding from the computation of data showed that, (1) The
significant value (2-tailed) is 0,778, it is higher than 0,05, it implies that null
hypothesis can not be rejected. There is enough evidence to state that there is no
significant correlation between extroversion and writing skill. (2) For the
correlation coefficient, there was negative and weak correlation between
extroversion and English writing skill. It can be seen from r-value (Spearman?s
correlation) that was -0,149. (3) For the introversion and writing skill, the result
showed that the significant value (2-tailed) is 0,647 and it means that the null
hypothesis can not be rejected because it is higher than 0,05, as the result, there is
enough evidence to state that there is no significant correlation between
introversion and writing skill. (4) For the correlation coefficient, the r-value is
0,129. It means that there was positive correlation between introversion and
English writing skill but the correlation is modest.
For suggestion, the researcher suggest for the teacher to give treatment to
the students fairly. By providing space, time, opportunity to learn, and feedback,
teachers can help natural introverts shine in their classrooms. However, the
teachers need to find more effective ways and strategies to overcome the spelling
problem. It is important for adapting the student with English environment in the
language class. It is also to prevent that the students will write English words but
in Malaysian language.