Correlational study between students’ vocabulary mastery, habit of watching english movie, and speaking skill of the eighth grade of SMP Islam Diponegoro Surakarta in the 2012/2013 academic year

Oleh :
Erlin Nurfuah - X2210010 - Fak. KIP

The objectives of this quantitative research were to find out whether or not there is a correlation between vocabulary mastery, habit of watching English movies simultaneously and speaking skill and to know whether or not the correlation is significant. This research was carried out in class VIII A of SMP Islam Diponegoro Surakarta. The researcher conducted the test for getting the data of students’ vocabulary mastery and speaking skill and questionnaire for getting the data of students’ habit of watching English movies. Yet, before conducting the test, the researcher did the tryout to find out the validity, reliability, and readability of the instruments. The requirements of correlation must be normal, linear and significant. The results of the study showed that: (1) There is a positive correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and speaking skill. The coefficient of the correlation (r) is 0.98. The value of t-obtained is 25.272 and the value in table is 1.76. The correlation is significant because to > tt. (2) There is a positive correlation between students’ habit of watching English movies and speaking skill. The coefficient of the correlation (r) is 0.940. The value of t-obtained is 10.321 and the value in table is 1.76. The correlation is significant because to > tt. (3) There is a positive correlation between vocabulary mastery, habit of watching English movies simultaneously and speaking skill. The multiple correlations coefficient (R) is 0.989. The multiple correlations are significant because the value of F-obtained is 300.351. The research finding of this study implies that there is a positive correlation between vocabulary mastery, habit of watching English movies and speaking skill. Therefore, the teacher can profitably direct students to enhance their speaking skill through mastering vocabularies and motivating the students to build their habit in watching English movie in their everyday life. The students could spend their spare time to watch English movies and make it as their habit. The researcher also suggests to the other researchers to develop the result of this research into a new research by assembling a new innovation in using English movie as the media or the materials of the teaching English. Keywords: speaking skill, vocabulary mastery, habit of watching English movies, correlation, quantitative research.