The Relationship between the Students’ habit of Watching English Movies and their English Speaking Skill on the seventh-grade Students of SMPN 128 Jakarta in 2018/ 2019 Academic Year

drs. zuhad ahmad, m. pd; neti hartati, m.pd;

ALIFIA AJENG YASINTA, NIM: 1401065005. The Relationship between the Students’ habit of Watching English Movies and their English Speaking Skill on the seventh-grade Students of SMPN 128 Jakarta 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 relationship or not between the students’ habit of watching English movies and their English speaking skill of the seventh-grade students of SMPN 128 Jakarta in 2018/ 2019 academic year.
This study was held in January 2019 with all of the seventh-grade students as the population and 30 students in VII-3 as the sample. The method of this study was a quantitative method in a form of a correlational study. The instruments used for collecting the data were a questionnaire on the student habit of watching English movies and a speaking test. The scores of the two variables were calculated by using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation.
Based on the result of the Chi-Square test, the data of two variables have normal distribution. The result of the normality test of X and Y variables are smaller than X2t= 17.1. The result of X= -65.9884 and Y= -51.4694. The scattered diagram, form a straight linear line. From the r-test, the result of ro= 0.11 is lower than rt= 0.361. As ro < rt, it can be said Ho is accepted and Hi is rejected. From the t-test, the result of to= 0.59 is lower than tt = 1.70. Therefore, there is no significant relationship between the students’ habit of watching English movies and their English speaking skill of the seventh grade of SMPN 128 Jakarta in 2018/ 2019 Academic Year.