Eliya Adelia. 2022. The Correlation Between Emotional Intelligence and Speaking Performance of The Second Semester English Education Students in Cokroaminoto Palopo University. (Supervised by Andi Mangnguntungi Sudirman
and Reski Yusrini Islmiah Yunus).

This research aims to find out the correlation between emotional intelligence
and speaking performance. This research is quantitative research that uses the
correlation as a method. The subject in this research is the second semester
English education students at Cokroaminoto Palopo University. The instrument of
this research is questionnaire and speaking test, the questionnaire used to know
students’ emotional intelligence and speaking test used to know students’
speaking performance. The result of this research shows the significance value
Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.312, because the significantly is higher than 0.05 (0.312 >
0.05), it can be concluded that there is no significant correlation between
emotional intelligence and speaking performance (H0 is accepted and Ha is
rejected) and also the researcher concluded that respondents have high emotional
intelligence but very low correlation with speaking performance. It can be state
that influential factor on speaking performance comes from linguistic problems.