The Relationship Between Students’ Grammar Mastery And Their Speaking Ability At The Ninth Grade Of SMPS Bodhisatta On The First Semester In 2019/2020 Academic Year

drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd;

EKA RHAMA DHANI. 1501055034.“The Relationship between Students’ Grammar Mastery and Their Speaking Ability at the Ninth Grade of SMPS Bodhisatta on the First Semester in 2019/2020 Academic Year”. A paper . Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education. The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2019.
The objective of the study was to get the empirical data whether there was
any significant relationship between the students’ grammar mastery and their
speaking ability. The population were two classes of the ninth grade and total of
the student were 40 students. The sample were 20 students’ that taken from the
ninthA (9A) class students of SMPS Bodhisatta.
The method used in this study was quantitative method and the technique
used was a co-relational technique. The collecting data in this study used grammar
test and speaking oral test. In assessing students’ grammar mastery, the writer
conducted multiple choice item tests and it consists of 30 items, while in assessing
students’ speaking skill, the writer gave the students picture-cued to be describe.
There was no relationship or negative correlation between students’ grammar mastery and their speaking ability at the ninth grade of SMPS Bodhisatta
on the first semester in 2019/2020 academic year. It can be seen from the result
was ro