THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA N1 ABUNG PEKURUN KOTABUMI NORTH LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

Tussa’adah, Nurlaila (2018) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION MASTERY AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA N1 ABUNG PEKURUN KOTABUMI NORTH LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

English is an International language that is used in many countries, either as foreign language or a second language. In teaching and learning process in the class, there are a lot of students who find some difficulties in learning English. One of the difficulties that the students find in English learning activity is speaking. The students’ speaking ability in SMA N1 Abung Pekurun, Kotabumi, North Lampung is still low. To solve this problem, the researcher correlate it with Pronunciation. The objective of this research is to know whether there is acorrelation between students pronunciation mastery and their speaking ability at the first semester of the eleventh grade of SMA N1 Abung Pekurun Kotabumi North Lampung in the academic year of 2017/2018. The research methodology was correlational research. The population of the research was taken from students of the eleventh grade of SMA N1 Abung Pekurun Kotabumi North Lampung especially in IPA classes. The researcher took 30 students in IPA 1 as the sample from 87 students who come from IPA 1, IPA 2, and IPA 3. The sample of the research was gained through cluster random sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher used test to measure students’ pronunciation mastery and their speaking ability. The form of the test was made a dialogue with a friend. The test was done to find out the validity, reliability and readability. After the data of the students’ pronunciation mastery and their speaking ability were collected, the data were statistically computed to find out the correlation between students’ pronunciation mastery and their speaking ability. After doing testing the hypothesis, the results was that there is a positive correlation between students’ pronunciation mastery and their speaking ability at the first semester of the eleventh grade of SMA N1 Abung Pekurun Kotabumi North Lampung in the academic year of 2017/2018.From the data analysis computed by using person product moment correlation form, it was obtained that Sig = 0,954 and

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