The Relationship Between Students’ Learning Motivation And Speaking Skill At The Eighth Grade Of SMPN 7 Bekasi In 2018/2019 Academic Year

yani kusniawati; dr. roslaini, m.hum,; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd;

VERA AFRIYANTI DJAS, NIM: 1701059017. The Relationship between Students’ Learning Motivation and Speaking Skill at the Eighth Grade of SMPN 7 Bekasi in 2018/2019 Academic Year. A Paper: the Study Programme of English Education, the School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, Jakarta 2019.
The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence whether there is a significant relationship or not between students‟ learning motivation and speaking skill at the eighth grade of SMPN 7 Bekasi in 2018/ 2019 Academic Year. The population are 9 classes. According to the English teacher information, there is an excellent class, so the writer chooses a purposive sampling as a research sample. That is VIII.1 which consists of 35 students.
This study was held on January 2019. The method of this study was quantitative method. The instruments used for collecting the data were motivation questionnaire and speaking test about describing animal. The scores of two variables were calculated by using Pearson‟s Product Moment Correlation.
Based on the result of Chi-Square test, the data of two variables have normal distribution. The result of normality of X2o (4.96) in X variables and X2o (4.01) in Y variable are smaller than X2t= 7.81. From the scattered diagram, the scores show closed to the straight line and linear. From the r-test analysis, the result of ro= 0.70 is higher than rt= 0.325. As ro > rt. It can be said Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. It means there is the relationship between students‟ learning motivation and speaking skill at the eighth grade of SMPN 7 Bekasi in 2018/2019 academic year. From the t-test significant analysis, the result of to = 5.63 is higher than tt = 1.69. It means there is significant relationship between students‟ learning motivation and speaking skill at the eighth grade of SMPN 7 Bekasi in 2018/2019 academic year