A CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ANXIETY, VOCABULARY MASTERY, AND SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

The study is aimed to find out the correlation between students’ anxiety, vocabulary mastery, and speaking skill of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kartasura in the academic year of 2011/ 2012; both partially and simultaneously. The study belongs to a correlational study which uses a questionnaire and a test to collect the data. The population is all of the eleventh grade students while the sample is the students of class XI A3 taken by cluster random sampling technique. The techniques used to analyze the data are simple and multiple regression and correlation by using SPSS 18. The results of the study show that there is a positive correlation between students’ anxiety, vocabulary mastery, and speaking skill, both partially and simultaneously. The positive correlation indicates that students’ anxiety and vocabulary mastery tend to go up together with speaking skill or they tend to go down together with speaking skill. Both students’ anxiety and vocabulary mastery also give contribution to speaking skill.