Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to find out whether there is a correlation or
not between students’ motivation and their speaking skill at the eleventh grade
student of SMK Batik Sakti 2 Kebumen. In this research the researcher took 40
students of sample. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling.
The instrument used to collect the data is test. To analyze the data, the reseacher
uses oral test and questionnaire.
The result of this study show that there is a positive correlation between
students’ motivation in learning speaking and their speaking ability. It is proved
by the rxy (0.796) is higher than rtable in the degree significance 5% (0.311) and 1%
(0.402). It is considered that the null hypothesis (Ho) in this study rejected and the
alternative hypothesis (Ha) which is states that there is correlation between
students’ motivation in learning speaking and their speaking ability is accepted. In
conclussion, there is positive correlation between students’ motivation in learning
speaking and their speaking abiity. It means that students with higher motivation
will get better speaking ability then the lower one. In other words, the higher
motivated students, the better speaking ability can be achieved.
