AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN SPEAKING ENGLISH AND ITS EFFECT ON THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY OF SECOND GRADE OF MADRASAH ALIYAH (MA) PADURESO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

English as a tool of communication has been playing an important part in acquiring cultural, scientific and technical knowledge, for collecting worldwide information and carrying out international exchange and cooperation. The objective of this research is to know the student’s motivation, students’s speaking ability, and to know whether or not there is any positive and significant correlation between the student’s motivation in speaking English and its effect on their Speaking Ability of Second Grade of Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Padureso in academic year 2012/2013. The research population in this research is the Second Grade of MA Padureso and the samples were 31 samples. The researcher uses descriptive quantitative and correlation analysis. To get the data the researcher uses questionnaire and documentation as instrument. The level of the students’ motivation in speaking English of second grade of Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Padureso in academic year 2012/2013 is in high category. As mean score is 73.67. While the level of the student’s speaking ability is in very high category. As mean score is 81.45, and the correlation result is in high category, there is 0.799. It means that there is correlation between the student’s motivation in speaking English and the student’s speaking ability. To know whether there is an effect between two variables the researcher finds the regression linier that is 0.638 (63.8%), it means that the student’s motivation can affect on their speaking ability. The result of this study shows that there is positive and significant correlation between the student’s motivation and the student speaking ability.

Keywords : motivation, speaking, speaking ability