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2. The Difference in Speaking Achievement Between the
Students Having High Self-Esteem and With Those Having
Low Self-Esteem

The relationships between self-esteem and academic

achievement have received much attention. As a result, the

students with high self-esteem will facilitate their academic

achievement. The term speaking is a skill where the students have

to use their oral reproduction to utter the language, whether

they are making a mistake or not is a different thing; at the end at

least they’ve tried.

Meanwhile, the term self-esteem is not a skill, but it is a

feeling deep down the students’ soul. It can only be

measured by observing the way in which a person acts, deals

or behaves.

Students with high self-esteem tend to become talkative

and they will be able to influence other’s way of thinking and

attitude in a proper way, it will allow them to be free in delivering

their thoughts in any conditions, make them grow in a mature

way in any aspect of life, they tend to respect others as if they

respect themselves, it will help them in accepting

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