THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND SPEAKING ABILITY

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND SPEAKING ABILITY AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

OF KHAIRUN UNIVERSITY

Saiful Latif & Ainun Jajilah

Lecturer of English Language Education Study Program
Student of English Language Education Study Program

E-mail Ainunjajilah@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The objective of this research is to know there is any correlation between vocabulary mastery and speaking ability at class A 4^th semester students of English Education  Study Program of Khairun University consist of 11 students. Convinient sampling is used in this research. This research used correlation design with quantitative approach. The data were collected by using two kinds, vocabulary test and documentation (final speaking score) of public speaking subject were involved. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation formula IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Study) version 19 was used to analyze the data. The data analysis shows there is a positive correlation between vocabulary mastery and speaking ability. The r_xy distribution of the coefficient correlation is 0.562. It means that the correlation was in fair level. H₁ (alternative hypothesis) of this research is accepted and null hypothesis (H₀) is rejected.  There was no much different between the students’ vocabulary score and student’ speaking score. In other words, it can be concluded that students who are good in vocabulary will also tend to be good in speaking.

Keywords: correlation, vocabulary mastery, speaking ability

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