The Correlation between Vocabulary Mastery and English Speaking Ability of the Tenth Grade Students of Senior High School 12 Palembang

Abstract

This research was concerned with the inquiry of the correlation between vocabulary mastery and English speaking ability of the tenth grade students of Senior High School 12 Palembang. Mastering vocabulary is much needed in order to be good in speaking ability. The problem of the study is to investigate the correlation between vocabulary mastery and English speaking ability of the tenth grade students of Senior High School 12 of Palembang. This is a quantitative study. The data collection is deliberated by adopting test and r Product Moment Correlation is used to analyze the data. Findings show that there is correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their English speaking ability. In respect to the data analysis of this study, it can be concluded that there was significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and students’ English speaking ability. It has been analyzed by test of vocabulary mastery and English speaking ability test. The result showed that the coefficient correlation of them was 0.630, rescpectively with the significance level 5% was 0.320. Therefore, alternative hypothesis ( ) is accepted while Null Hypothesis ( ) is rejected. The conclusion suggests that mastering vocabulary has significant role to improve students speaking ability.