The Relationship between Students’ Anxiety and Speaking Skill of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Negeri 49 Jakarta in the 2016-2017 Academic Year

robinson r, john; martriwati, m.pd.; nita kaniadewi, m.pd.;

APRILIANI. NIM : 1301065020. The Relationship between Students’ Anxiety
and Speaking Skill of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Negeri 49 Jakarta in
the 2016-2017 Academic Year. A Paper, Jakarta : The Study Programme of
English Education. The School of Teacher Training and Education. The
University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA Jakarta, August 2017.
The objective of the research was to find the empirical evidence of the
relationship between the students’ anxiety and speaking skill. The research was
started on March 24th 2017 and finished on April 25th 2017. The population in this
research were all of the eleventh grade students of SMKN 49 Jakarta in
2016/2017 Academic Year. The writer chose one class randomly to get the sample
and the eleventh Syariah Banking grade students was the chosen sample of this
research. In completing the data, the writer was conducted field research by
quantitative survey method. The instruments were questionnaire to measure the
students’ anxiety and speaking test to measure the students’ speaking skill. To
analyze the students’ anxiety and speaking skill, the writer used the correlation
method with the analysis of Pearson’s Product Moment. Based on the explanation
and the correlation analysis, it was found that robserved = 0.97 and rtable = 0.33 in the
level significance 5% of Pearson Product Moment correlation. It meant that
robserved was higher than rtable (0.97 > 0.33). Therefore, there was very high
relationship between anxiety and speaking skill. From the significant test, it was
also found tobserved > ttable = 22.83 > 2.03. It could be concluded as well that there
was a significant relationship between anxiety and speaking skill with 94%
contribution in both of variables.