THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT SMAN 5 PADANG
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ABSTRACT Listening and speaking are interconnected skills of communication working together to facilitate understanding, convey information, and build meaningful connections between individuals. This study aimed at finding out the correlation between the second grade students’ listening ability and their speaking ability at SMAN 5 Padang. In this study, the researcher applied correlational research. The total population of this research was 427 students. The subjects in this study were 33 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique. The instruments for this research were listening test in the form of multiple choices and speaking test to collect the data. The result showed that the coefficient correlation between students’ listening ability and their speaking ability was 0.123. To see whether such correlation is significant or not, it was compared with the value of at significant level α = 0.05 and df = n-2 (31). As a matter of fact, the value of was 0.344. It means that was lower than (0.123<0.344). It can be stated that there is no significant correlation between students’ listening ability and their speaking ability. Therefore, the null hypothesis was accepted. Keywords: Correlation, Listening Ability, and Speaking AbilityReferensi
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