THE CORRELATION OF STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY ON SPEAKING ABILITY

(At the Eighth Grade of SMPN 1 Kroya in the Academic year 2023/2024)

Abstract

This research aims to find out how students' vocabulary mastery relates to speaking ability and obtain evidence that there is a significant relationship between these two variables. This research methodology uses quantitative methods with a correlational model, where the type of correlational research is a type of non-experimental research. The research was conducted on class VIII students at SMPN 1 Kroya, from a total class VIII population of 305 students and a sample of 62 students was taken or two classes were taken, therefore sampling used a cluster random sampling technique in the selected classes. Students will be tested on their knowledge through a multiple choice test and the second test is an oral test, the material tested focuses on describing something, for the oral test students describe three objects that have been prepared by the researcher.

The results of this research show that there is a correlation between students' vocabulary mastery and the speaking skills of class VIII students at SMPN 1 Kroya. This research obtained data on scores obtained from students' vocabulary mastery tests and students' speaking ability tests, where the lowest score was 24 points for students' vocabulary mastery and 25 points for speaking ability, while the highest score was 100 points for students' vocabulary mastery and 100 points. speaking ability is 100 points, thus from this data the researcher concludes that there is a relationship between students' vocabulary mastery (X) and speaking ability (Y), which in the data shows that if variable X increases then variable Y increases (X = 100, Y = 100) and if variable decreases, variable Y also decreases (X = 24, Y = 25). From the results of calculations using the SPSS 23 program, a correlation coefficient value of 0.969 was obtained. This means that the two variables have a correlation and the interpretation is that the correlation is very high and the significance value (2-tailed) is 0.000. Significance test if Sig < 0.05 then (0.000 < 0.05) means the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. then the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, meaning that there is a relationship between students' vocabulary mastery and their speaking ability at SMPN 1 Kroya.