The Correlation Between Students' Motivational Behavior and Students' Speaking Proficiency

Angga Syaputra, Muhammad Sukirlan, Gede Eka Putrawan

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menginvestigasi i) hubungan antara motivasi belajar siswa dengan kemampuan berbicara bahasa Inggris, ii) jenisdari perilaku motivasi yang memberikan pengaruh terbesar terhadapkemampuan berbicara bahasa inggris. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitiankuantitatif dengan desain penelitianex post de facto design. Subyek dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 40 siswa pada tahun ke dua SMA Al Kautsar Bandarlampung. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah kuesioner dan extensive monologue English speaking test. Berdasarkan hasil, dapat disimpulkanbahwa ada hubungan antara perilaku motivasi siswa dan kemampuan berbicara bahasa inggris. Selain itu, perhatian secara signifikan mempengaruhi kemampuan berbicara siswa. Ini menunjukkan bahwa hanya perhatian yang mengarah kepada kemampuan siswa dalam berbicara diantara dua kategori lainnya dalam motivasi belajar siswa.

 

The objectives of this research were to investigate i) the correlation betweenstudents’ motivational behaviors and their English speaking proficiency, ii) the kinds of motivational behaviors that significantly affected thestudents’ speaking proficiency. The current study was quantitative research with ex post de facto design. The subjects were forty students of the second grade of SMA Al Kautsar Bandarlampung. The data were collected through questionnaires and the extensive monologue Englishspeaking test. The results showed that there is correlation between students’ motivational behavior and their English speaking proficiency. Furthermore, attention significantly affected the students’ speaking proficiency. This suggests that the only attention leadsthe students’ speaking ability among another two categories of motivational behaviors.

 

Keywords: correlation, English speaking proficiency, motivational behavior.


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