Abstract :
ABSTRACT
In this digital era, the speaking mastery becomes one of future career
requirements. Through speaking, people can convey their feelings,
thoughts, or ideas to other people. The success of speaking can be
influenced by psychological aspects, in this case, anxiety. Anxiety
becomes one of difficulties to increase speaking achievement. This
study was intended to know the correlation between speaking anxiety
and speaking achievement in one of private vocational high school in
Palembang. This research used correlational research design with
quantitative approach. Participants were selected by convenience
sampling technique with one hundred participants. To obtain the data
of students? speaking anxiety and PRPSA questionnaire were
administered. Furthermore, students? speaking achievement was also
assessed and analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment. As the
results, fifty five percent students belonged to high level of anxiety
and eighty one percent students belonged to intermediate level of
speaking. In addition, the correlational test results revealed that there
was significant correlation between speaking anxiety and speaking
achievement.
Keywords: Speaking performance, speaking achievement, speaking
anxiety