The Correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and students’ speking skill at the Eight Grade Students of SMP N 12 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

The objectives of the study were to know the students’ vocabulary mastery at the eighth grade students of SMP N 12 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017 and to find out the correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and students’ speaking skill at the eighth grade students of SMP N 12 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017. In this research the researcher used random sampling in taking the sample because of the limitation of time. The subjects of this study were the eighth grade students of SMP N 12 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017. The researcher took 30 students of class VII C. The researcher used multiple choices and small group as the test to collect the data. Then, the researcher analyzed the data result by manual calculation and SPSS 16.0. The research result showed that the mean of vocabulary test was 70.04. Meanwhile, the mean of speaking test was 64.16. So, it mean that both of vocabulary test and speaking test were included in good category. From that explanation, the correlation between students vocabulary mastery and students’ speaking skill at the eighth grade students of SMP N 12 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017 was positive and significant correlation, it shows that coefficient correlation between two variables is 0.702 and this more than 0, so the correlation between two variables is positive, and r value is higher than r table, it is 0.702> 0.361, so Ha is accepted or it can be said significant.