A correlation study between students’ motivation and their speaking skill at the eleventh grade students in SMK Batik Sakti 2 Kebumen in the academic 2015/ 2016

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.