THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ FREQUENCY IN USING ENGLISH AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 MANDAU

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According to the preliminary research, it was found that the second year
students of State Senior High School 1 Mandau got difficulties in speaking such
as some students are confused in giving ideas, some students forgot about the
ideas they want to bring, some of others are nervous when they speak in front of
the class, and difficult to pronounce the English word correctly so that the aim of
this research was to determine students’ frequency in using English of the second
year at State Senior High School 1 Mandau, to investigate their speaking ability in
storytelling, and to determine whether there was or not significant relationship
between students’ frequency in using English and their speaking ability in
storytelling.
This was a correlational research design, questionnaire was used to
determine students’ frequency in using English result and their recorded speaking
ability in storytelling was used to determine the speaking ability which had been
evaluated by two raters. The population of the research was all of the second year
students of State Senior High School 1 Mandau with the total number of 372
students. Then, in determining the sample the researcher used proportional
random sampling technique. The total number of the sample was 38 students. The
researcher used Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, the result of the
analysis calculated by SPSS 21.0 program.
Based on the data analysis, it showed that sig-t = .000 was smaller than
0.05 (sig-t ? 0.05). It can be concluded that Ha (alternative hypothesis) was
accepted. In other words, there was a significant relationship between the
students’ frequency in using English and their speaking ability in storytelling at
State Senior High School 1 Mandau.
Keyword: Relationship, Frequency, Speaking Ability, Storytelling

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