THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VERBAL-LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DARUL QUR’AN TARAI BANGUN KAMPAR

Abstrak / Ringkasan

This study aimed to know and describe the relationship between students’
verbal-linguistic intelligence and their speaking ability at the eleventh grade of
Islamic Boarding School Madrasah Aliyah Darul Qur’an Tarai Bangun Kampar.
After doing the observation, the writer found some problems, such as; some of
students were difficult in answering question on English test as well as to speak in
front of the class, some of students were not able to express their ideas orally,
were not able to use grammar in speaking, some of students were lack of English
vocabularies, and cannot pronounce the English words correctly. This study used
a quantitative method with the correlational as the research design of study. There
were 32 students that used as sample on this research. The sample determined by
using total sampling technique. The instruments used for collecting data were
verbal-linguistic intelligence questionnaire and oral test to measure students’
verbal-linguistic intelligence and their speaking ability. The data obtained from
the instruments was calculated by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation on
SPSS 17 program for Windows. Based on the research analysis, the relationship
between the two variables was not found. Because the value of Sig.(2-tailed) was
0.059. It means that the value of Sig.(2-tailed) was bigger than ? = 0.05. Hence,
the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was rejected and null hypothesis (H0) was
accepted. In conclusion, there was no significant relationship between students’
verbal-linguistic intelligence and their speaking ability the eleventh grade students
of Islamic Boarding School Madrasah Aliyah Darul Qur’an Tarai Bangun
Kampar.

Keywords : Relationship, Verbal-linguistic Intelligence, and Speaking Ability.

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