Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)

The Correlation Between Students’ Motivation and Their Speaking Ability

Authors
Aning Widayanti, Dwi Amanatun Nafisah, Ahsanatul Munawwaroh, Nur Fadilah, Milatul Islamiyah
Corresponding Author
Aning Widayanti
Available Online 1 May 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200427.031How to use a DOI?
Keywords
motivation, students’ motivation, speaking ability
Abstract

Speaking is one of important skill for all students that every student should master it. In the modern era, some students may be not all of them have a good speaking in English. To help their ability to speak, the students should have a high motivation, fine extrinsic or intrinsic motivation. Motivation is an internal condition that exists in humans which can encourage someone to act ina certain direction and engage in certain activities. The purpose of this research is to find out the relationship between students’ motivation in learning speaking and speaking ability at State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. To collect the data, the researchers distributed the questionnaire to 30 students of English Teacher Education Department in the third semester who have taken spoken English Class in 2018 to know the students’ motivation and their speaking ability. It was discoverd that the students of English Teacher Education Department have not high motivation. Next, from the Spoken English final score, it was found that the students have a high score in speaking ability. It can conclude that there is no positive correlation between students’ motivation in learning speaking and their speaking ability. In other words, there is no significant correlation between English Teacher Education Department students in State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya with their speaking ability.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
1 May 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-959-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200427.031How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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