THE INFLUENCE OF VOCABULARY MASTERY TOWARD ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY

Yasmika Baihaqi

doi:10.24127/pj.v3i1.700

Abstract

One of the purpose of teaching speaking is the students are able to use English as a means of communication based on the context and situation related to their level of vocabulary mastery. So before we are able to communicate well, we should have a large number of words.The objective of this research is to find out whether vocabulary is influential toward English speaking ability. The populations of this research are 190 students of all the fourth semester in the academic year of 2009-2010. Based on the table of Krecjie, a number of samples are 127 students. The sampling technique used is the simple random sampling technique. To collect the data, the researcher requires two tests, vocabulary and speaking tests.This study yields that there is a positive and significant influence between English vocabulary mastery and the students’ speaking ability, it is proved by the value of correlation coefficient 0.764 which is higher than the value of r table (0.176). It means that the rise of the independent variable (the students’ vocabulary mastery) will be followed by the rise of the dependent variable (English speaking ability). The effective contribution of the students’ vocabulary mastery toward English speaking ability is 58.6%

Highlights

One of the purpose of teaching speaking is the students are able to use English as a means of communication based on the context and situation related to their level of vocabulary mastery
If 58.4% of them is affected by vocabulary mastery, 41.6 % of them is resulted from many other independent variables
The result of descriptive analysis could be described that the mean of the vocabulary mastery is 66.57 and the mean of English speaking ability is 67.23

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Introduction

One of the purpose of teaching speaking is the students are able to use English as a means of communication based on the context and situation related to their level of vocabulary mastery. This study yields that there is a positive and significant influence between English vocabulary mastery and the students’ speaking ability, it is proved by the value of correlation coefficient 0.764 which is higher than the value of r table (0.176). It means that the rise of the independent variable (the students’ vocabulary mastery) will be followed by the rise of the dependent variable (English speaking ability). Vocabulary is very important and has influence toward speaking ability

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