THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY AND THEIR SPEAKING FLUENCY AT THE TENTH GRADE OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 12 PEKANBARU

Abstrak / Ringkasan

The 2013 curriculum stated that the students must be able to produce oral
and written text fluently and accurately. Logically, the students are able to speak
fluently and accurately and the goal of teaching should be achieved but it is
contradictory with the real situation. those are because some affective factors such
as motivation, inhibition, self-esteem and anxiety. And anxiety is one of the
prominent factors which are influenced foreign language learning. Therefore, this
research was aimed to find out the correlation between students’ speaking anxiety
and their speaking fluency in at tenth grad of State Senior High School 12
Pekanbaru. This research is a correlational research, which the researcher
distributed questionnaires to the respondent to assess students’ speaking anxiety.
Besides, in assessing students’ speaking fluency, the researcher conducted oral
test to the students and the score was evaluated by two raters. The population of
the research was 396 students. Then, in choosing the sample the researcher used
simple random sampling and took 30 students. The researcher used Pearson
product moment correlation coefficient through SPSS 22.00 to analyze the data.
The result of this research shows that sig. (2-tailed) value is 0.001. It can be stated
that 0.000<0.05. It means that null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected while the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. The value of correlation coefficient (r) is -0.700. In conclusion, there is a significant negative correlation between students’ speaking anxiety and their speaking fluency.

Key words: Correlation, Speaking Anxiety, Speaking Fluency

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