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phonics listening focuses on how words work where it breaks down the word into letters, so does the other way round and its relationship to the context.
C. Self-Confidence
The students’ listening performance has to do with the students’ self-confidence in dealing with the exercises. This research discusses the nature of self-confidence, the
importance of self-confidence and the characteristics of self-confidence, the self- confidence level, the self-confidence breaker, and the self-confidence builder.
1. The Nature of Self-Confidence
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, confidence is a feeling of consciousness of ones powers or of reliance on ones circumstances. Self-confidence
is also the faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way. Self-confidence Gerber, 2008: 3 can be defined as pleasure and satisfaction
experiences in one’s own skills, abilities, and achievements, which motivate him to continue pursuing his goals and take risks.
Sayre 2001: 12-13 explains that self-confidence triggers certain feelings and show automatic reactions within people because confidence comes from within and
when someone believes in himself, then the others will believe in him. This is a universal law. It does not work the other way around, no matter how much people
would prefer that. Self-confidence, however, helps people to survive facing the challenging situation, to achieve the results they expected efficiently and make people
feel good when someone deals with them.
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Self-confidence is built upon the ability to begin seeing oneself as skilled. The process of developing one’s self-confidence is gained through step by step and day by
day experience. Many famous individuals have explained that their success is achieved because of having self-confidence Healy, 2009: 2. Brown 2001: 62
agrees that self- confidence is the learner’s belief toward himself in accomplishing the
task. In order to enhance the students’ self-confidence, the teacher is suggested to give the materials form the simple into the complex ones. Therefore, the students feel
the satisfaction of understanding a concept and they are ready to move forward to learn the difficult ones.
The students who have great self-confidence can face a successful transition in ad
ulthood. In order to boost the students’ self-confidence, the positive feedback can be given to them. Children who are taught to be ashamed of their mistakes will stop
trying www.helpingpsychology.com. In this research, self-
confidence is a feeling of someone’s belief or satisfaction towards his own skills, abilities, and achievements so that he can survive facing the
challenging situation, take risks, achieve the results he expected efficiently. Moreover, he will motivate himself to continue pursuing his goals.
2. The Importance of Self-Confidence
