CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PRONUNCATION ABILITY AND THEIR READING FLUENCY AT SMK TELKOM PEKANBARU

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Resti sarimah (2022): The Correlation Between Students’ Pronunciation and Students’ Reading Fluence at TELKOM Vocational High School Pekanbaru
This research explored about students? pronunciation which could help students increase their reading fluency. In the learning process of English course, teachers delivered the learning based on the reference book and predominantly the learning focused on the English skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Especially in their reading skill, the teacher focused on all aspects to develope the students? reading skill. As teacher?s explanation, in teaching reading he/she asked the students to understand the text in front of the class and other students listen to their friends well and corrected the wrong pronunciation when reading the text. Beside that, the teacher also read so that they could read the text fluently.
This research was conducted on grade XI students of TELKOM Vocational High School Pekanbaru consisting of 5 classes with total population 153 students. The author used total sampling as the technique of sample selection. The author used product moment correlation formula from pearson because it took two variables namely independent and dependent variables combined and the scale of data measurement was interval scale.
The research results show that there is correlation between students? pronunciation and their reading fluence at TELKOM Vocational High School Pekanbaru. This is supported by the value achieved by the students after the researcher gave a test. The result of Pearson Product Moment Correlation was 0.743. The result of dependency level = 0, in the table of 5% with significance level 0.05. In other words, pronunciation has correlation to the students? reading fluence at TELKOM Vocational High School Pekanbaru.

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