The Speaking Ability of The Fourth Semester Students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University in Academic Year 2011/2012 with Different Reading Activities
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Universitas Muria Kudus
Author
Mubarokah, Wakhidatu
Subject
Bahasa Inggris
Datestamp
2013-05-07 07:14:52
Abstract :
Speaking considers as the skill that has to be mastered by the language learners because it is thought as one of the indicators to measure the success of learning language. In fact, people often think that teaching speaking is difficult. It is caused by good speaking needs many aspects, they are: fluency, accuracy and content. These conditions also happen in the fourth semester students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University. The students feel anxious and afraid of making mistake to speak up and deliver her opinion or idea in English. The student’s ability of speaking was bad because they are talkless. The students need to more practise. Then, this research aims to find out whether there is a significant difference in the speaking ability between the students who have high and low in activity of reading. Meanwhile, this research belongs to quantitative descriptive ex-post facto research with the subject of the research is the fourth semester students who join in academic speaking class of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2011/2012. In deciding the sampling, the researcher used a random sampling technique. There are seven classes of speaking class, and the researcher take some of students in each class. Total of the sample is 60 students. In the result, from the total of the sample, there are 28 students who belong to high reading activity and 32 students who have low reading activity. For high reading activity classification has good result with Mean score is 79.78 and low reading activity classification has sufficient result with Mean score is 69.56. Then, on the level significance 0.05 the result is t0 = 4.989 > tt = 2.021 and on the level of significance 0.01 is t0 = 4.989 > tt = 2.704. It can be concluded that there is significant difference in the speaking ability of the fourth semester students who have high and low reading activity of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2011/2012. It means that the students who have high reading activity are better than the students who have low reading activity in the speaking ability. Based on the result of this research, the researcher could state that the reading activity is one of cause of the speaking ability. So, for the students in high and low reading activity, they have to increase their reading activity minimally in reading material book of study to help them in understanding the material, add their knowledge and increasing their speaking ability.
Speaking considers as the skill that has to be mastered by the language learners because it is thought as one of the indicators to measure the success of learning language. In fact, people often think that teaching speaking is difficult. It is caused by good speaking needs many aspects, they are: fluency, accuracy and content. These conditions also happen in the fourth semester students of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University. The students feel anxious and afraid of making mistake to speak up and deliver her opinion or idea in English. The student’s ability of speaking was bad because they are talkless. The students need to more practise. Then, this research aims to find out whether there is a significant difference in the speaking ability between the students who have high and low in activity of reading. Meanwhile, this research belongs to quantitative descriptive ex-post facto research with the subject of the research is the fourth semester students who join in academic speaking class of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2011/2012. In deciding the sampling, the researcher used a random sampling technique. There are seven classes of speaking class, and the researcher take some of students in each class. Total of the sample is 60 students. In the result, from the total of the sample, there are 28 students who belong to high reading activity and 32 students who have low reading activity. For high reading activity classification has good result with Mean score is 79.78 and low reading activity classification has sufficient result with Mean score is 69.56. Then, on the level significance 0.05 the result is t0 = 4.989 > tt = 2.021 and on the level of significance 0.01 is t0 = 4.989 > tt = 2.704. It can be concluded that there is significant difference in the speaking ability of the fourth semester students who have high and low reading activity of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2011/2012. It means that the students who have high reading activity are better than the students who have low reading activity in the speaking ability. Based on the result of this research, the researcher could state that the reading activity is one of cause of the speaking ability. So, for the students in high and low reading activity, they have to increase their reading activity minimally in reading material book of study to help them in understanding the material, add their knowledge and increasing their speaking ability.
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