Self-Confidence
Confidence is a feeling of trust in
someone. To be self-confident is to have confidence in our self. Self-confident
people don't doubt themselves. This is usually a positive word: you can be
self-confident without being cocky, arrogant, or overconfident. If you know
what you’re doing, you have every reason to be self-confident.
Lauster (1992:4) stated that self
confidence is an attitude or feeling confident in the ability of self so that
the person concerned is not too anxious in his actions, feel free to do things
and take responsibility for his actions, warm and polite in interacting with
others, have encouragement to participate and get to know the advantages and
disadvantages.
The importance of self-confidence for
learners is crucial part in leaning speaking English. This can achieve teaching
material and activities that can give enthusiasm, courage and stimulation to
learners, when the teacher present the material and ask student to perform with
their ideas, they will not to monotonous and boring in learning process.
Dörnyei (2001: 16) argued that the ways to promote students’ self-confidence
were through providing experience of success, encouraging the learners and
reducing anxiety. The learners have to enthusiasm achieved the goal of learning
a foreign language to success in mastery a target language well. Students
having to high self-confidence will maximize the feedback to improve their
speaking competency and reach their excellent goal in learning.
Clement at all (1994:2) stated that
self-confidence significantly contributes to the learner’s willingness to
communicate in a foreign language. According to them, effective factor such as
motivation, personality, inter group climate, and self-esteem underlie
willingness to communicate, and the factor of self-esteem and self-confidence
in communication play an important role in determining the learners’
willingness to communicate.
Self confidence can be internal
character; it means that it comes from the students’ individual and it also can
be external; which comes from the teacher, parent, friends, and so on. Self
confidence differs into intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic self confidence is a
simulator power which appropriate reason of the students in choosing and
learning the lesson that they learn seriously. Extrinsic self confidence is a
simulator power outside their action.
References
Lauster
P. (1992). Tes Kepribadian. Penerj.
D.H. Gulo, ANS Sungguh Bersaudara, Jakarta.
Clement,
R, Z. Dörnyei and K. A. Noels. (1994). Motivation,
Self-Confidence and Group Cohesion In The Foreign Language Classroom. Language
Learning, 44, 417-448. Harlow: Longman.
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