the correlation between students' anxiety and their ability in speaking class

Yuliana, maulidiyah (2015) the correlation between students' anxiety and their ability in speaking class. [ Skripsi ]

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Mauludiyah, Yuliana. Registered Number Student. 3213103144. 2014. The Correlation Between Students’ Anxiety And Their Ability in Speaking Class. Thesis. English Education Program. Islamic Institution of Tulungagung. Advisor: DR. Nurul Chojimah, M.Pd. Keywords: speaking nature, anxiety, level of anxiety. As an International language, English is important to learn by people in the world. In Indonesia, English is a foreign language which has difficulty level for students to learn. The learning oral speaking skill is a big part due to in language class. The students success in speaking for the foreign language can be influenced by psychological aspect, in this case, anxiety. When the learners have high anxious feeling, worry, or fear in foreign language class, they may become difficulty to increase their ability and get language acquisition. This study is intended to know whether there was the correlation between students’ anxiety and their ability in speaking class. Based on the research problem, the purpose of this study was to find out the correlation between the two variables, they are students’ anxiety and their ability in speaking class. For this study the writer takes a class of 4th semester students of English department at IAIN Tulungagung of 2013/2014 year as the participants. On taking the sampling, the writer used purposive sampling which helps to get the data needed. This research used correlation design with quantitative approach. For the instrument, the writer used two kinds of instruments to collect the data of two variables. The first instrument is FLCAS questionnaire sheet, developed by Horwitz et.al (1986), that contains of 33 item with 5 point Likert-Scale. This questionnaire used to measure students level of anxiety. And the second instrument is students’ speaking test. From the test the writer got the score which is will be compared with another variable to measure the correlation of each other. The writer did not conduct the test by her-self, but it took from the data of the lecturer of speaking subject. In measuring the correlation the writer take a theory of Pearson Product Moment. The writer did not calculate it in manual, but used SPSS program in order to make easy and valid. The finding of this research showed the result of r calculation for students’ anxiety and their speaking test is .139. Based on the table of interpretation of r value, the result of r calculated (.139) is between 0.000 and 0.200. This value shows that there is a positive correlation. From the significance (2 tailed), the writer get the score .558. It means r>0.05 which showed Ho cannot be rejected. The result explained that there is no correlation between two variables, students’ anxiety and their speaking test of 4th semester students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung.

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