THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

RIRIS, ANGGITA and Ernati, Ernati and Lailatul, Husna (2016) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The type of this research was correlation study. This research was aimed to test the correlation between the third year students’ motivation and their speaking ability at English Department of Bung Hatta University. The population of this research was all of the third year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University who registered in 2015/2016 academic year. The number of population members was 53 students. They were distributed in two classes. To choose the sample, the researcher used simple random sampling technique, and the sample of this research was 30 students. The researcher used two instruments to collect the data. First was questionnaire to collect data on students’ motivation (x). Second was speaking test to collect data on students’ speaking ability (y). The result of this study found that there is significant correlation between the third year students’ motivation and their speaking ability at English Department of Bung Hatta University. It was proved by the rxy (.457) is bigger than r table in the level of significance 5% and degree of freedom “n-2” (.374). It means that the hyphothesis “the correlation between the third year students’ motivation and their speaking ability at English Department of Bung Hatta University” was accepted. The researcher proposes suggestions. First is for lecturers, in order to improve students’ speaking ability, lecturers should consider students’ motivation in speaking and make their students’ speaking ability become better. For students, in order to improve their speaking ability, they should build their motivation with some external and internal motivation. For the next researchers, they should consider other factors that is correlate with students’ speaking ability. Key words: Correlation, Motivation, and Speaking Ability

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