THE CORRELATION BETWEEN RISK-TAKINGPERSONALITY AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY ATISLAMIC SENIOR HIGHSCHOOLDAREL HIKMAH PEKANBARU

Abstrak / Ringkasan

This research was survey research with correlational research design. The
purpose of this research was to investigate the correlation between students’ risktaking
personality
and
their
speaking
ability.
The
population
of
this
research
was

the

tenth grade students of Islamic Senior High School DarelHikmahPekanbaru
which consisted of seven classes with the total population was 180 students. The
respondents of this research were 78 students taken by using Simple Random
Sampling technique. In collecting the data, questionnaires were used to measure
students’ risk-taking personality and oral test used to measure their speaking
ability. The data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation
Coefficient (r) and calculated by using SPSS 22.0 program version in order to find
out whether there was or no a significant correlation between students’ risk-taking
personality and their speaking ability. Based on the data analysis, it was found
that the students’ risk-taking personality was categorized high with mean
percentage 66.28%, the students’ speaking ability was categorized very high with
the mean percentage 73.72%, and there was a correlation between students’ risktaking
personality
and
their
speaking
ability
with
the
strength
of
association
was

large

showed by correlation coefficient (r) = 0.614. Therefore, it was concluded
that null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was
accepted. In other words, there was a significant correlation between risk-taking
personality and students’ speaking ability at Islamic Senior High School
DarelHikmahPekanbaru.
Keywords : Correlation, Risk-Taking, Speaking Ability

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