The correlation of willingness to communicate and students’ speaking ability at second semester TBI IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Meisinta, Rani (2015) The correlation of willingness to communicate and students’ speaking ability at second semester TBI IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the correlation of willingness to communicate and students’ speaking ability at second semester TBI IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research most of the students felt difficult in speaking English, lack of motivation, lack of speaking practice and lack of willingness to communicate. The aim of this research to verify the correlation of willingness to communicate and students’ speaking ability at second semester TBI IAIN Padangsidimpuan. This research employed quantitative research and the method was correlation method. The population of this research was second semester of English education department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Then, the sample of the research was 7 persons from TBI- 1, 7 persons TBI- 2, 8 persons TBI-3 and 8 persons TBI-4. So, the sample of the research was 30 persons, exactly 25% from population. To collect the data, researcher used questionnaire for willingness to communicate and test to know students’ speaking ability and then researcher collected the test by record . To analize the data, the researcher used rcount. Based on the result of the research, the researcher showed the description of the data, and it found that the result calculating which was gotten the value of the correlation product moment rxy between variable x and y was 0.924. It was means rc > rt in degree of significant 5% . The hypothesis in this research received because rcount > rtable. It means there was a correlation of willingness to communicate and students’ speaking ability at second semester TBI IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Next testing the significant with formula tcount was 13.031 , in degree of significant 0.05 by looking ttable was 1.701. So, the correlation of willingness to communicate and students’ speaking ability was significant correlation.

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