U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 3, No 1 (2014): U-JET

THE EFFECT OF ATTITUDE TO THE STUDENTS' SPEAKING ABILITY

Very Indra Wahyu (lampung university)
Hery Yufrizal (Unknown)
Sudirman Sudirman (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
04 Feb 2014

Abstract

Penelitian ini adalah tentang efek dari sikap terhadap kemampuan berbicara bahasa inggris siswa. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari perbedaan antara dua jenis sikap yaitu positif dan negative terhadap kemampuan berbicara. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas 2 SMA. Penelitian ini menggunakan ex post facto disain. Penulis menggunakan kuisioner untuk mengetahui sikap siswa dan memberikan tes berbicara untuk mengukur kemampuan siswa. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa sikap positif siswa lebih bagus dalam kemampuan berbicara daripada sikap negatif. Siswa yang memiliki sikap positif memiliki nilai tertinggi untuk nilai berbicara secara umum, yaitu 75.87. nilai pelafalan 73.89, kelancaran 74.67, dan nilai pemahaman 76.00. Ini berarti bahwa sikap positif memiliki efek yang bagus dalam kemampuan berbicara siswa. Signifikansi 0.00 0.05, ini berarti ada perbedaan yang signifikan dari kemampuan berbicara siswa antara siswa yg memiliki sikap positif dan negative. This research is about the effect of attitude to the students’ speaking ability.  The objective of this research is to find out the differences between two types of attitude (positive and negative) to their speaking ability. The population of this research was the second year students of senior high school. This research used ex post facto design. The writer used questionnaire to know the students’ attitude and gave an oral test to measure the students’ speaking ability. The result showed that positive students were more successful in English speaking ability rather than negative and middle types of students. Positive students got the highest score 75.87 for general speaking, pronunciation (73.89), fluency (74.67), and comprehensibility (76.00). It means that the positive students had a positive impact on students’ ability in speaking. The significant was 0.000 0.05, means that there is a significance difference of English speaking ability between positive and negative students. Keywords: ability, attitude, effect, speaking

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...