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There are four skills of English, those are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Speaking is not the first skill in English, but speaking can be the most important in English ability. The people’s ability of English can be looked from their speaking. Speaking skill is always used to make communication with other people in the world. So, speaking is very important to learn in every school. Speaking has been learned from the elementary school up to the high level in the university. It means that the students in the senior high school level must master speaking well. 

In every learning, the method of learning becomes a determiner of the process. It means that the success of students’learning is influenced by learning method used. At the time, the teacher usually uses method of learning where the teacher always explains the material from the first until the end orit is called by lecturing method. Actually, lecturing method can not be used in all of subject material, for example in speaking. When the students learn about speaking, the using of lecturing method is not suitable in speaking subject, because the students have to be more active than their teacher. So, teacher has to choose the correct method to be used in speaking subject in order to make learning process runs well. 

There are many students who get bad result of their learning. Their achievement is low, especially in speaking. It is caused by many aspects such as: they are not interested to study, their motivation of study is low, and the material is boring. Beside that, the students’ low speaking achievement can be caused by the using of learning method and media that is not suitable and low. It means that students’ achievement is influenced by how the teacher teaches in the class. The other important aspect is the students’ low self-confidence. Speaking subject is focused on students’activities. So, the students have to be active when in the learning process. It has correlation with the students’self-confidence. The students who have low self-confidence will just silent at the learning process because they feel shy to speak to others. Whereas, the students who have high self-confidence, they want to be active to follow the learning process in the class. They always feel confident with everything they said. It will make them more developed because they always practice their speaking skill. The students’ speaking achievement can be showed at the table as follow:

Because of the students’ speaking achievement is low, it may be better if use other learning method in learning process. It has to be used the learning method which match with the speakingsubject. The important thing is how to choose the method which match with speaking subject in order to make the students’ speaking achievement is good. Because of that, it tries to use discussion and practice method in learning process of speaking subject. Beside of learning method, there is aspect of students’self-confidence which influence it such as low and high self-confidence. So, because of that problem, the researcher wants to do a research entitled “The Comparison of Speaking Ability Using Pair Discussion of Cooperative Learning and Repetition Drill of Audio Lingual Method at Different Self Confidence Students Eleventh Grade of SMA N 1 Rumbia Academic Year 2012/2013”.

Based on the problem background above, there are some problems arise as follow:

Based on the identification of the problem above, the researcher makes limitation of the research. The research will be focused on some problems such as the students’ low speaking  achievement, the learning method which is not suitable, and the students’ low self-confidence. So, the researcher only focus on the comparisson of speaking ability using pair discussion of cooperative learning and repetition drill of audio lingual method at different self confidence.