THE CORRELATION BETWEEN

STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE AND

MOTIVATION TOWARDS
SPEAKING ABILITY
 Where I did my research?
• I did my research in MA Matholi’ul Anwar
Lamongan.
• There are two reasons why senior high school
level was chosen. First, in senior high school,
English is a compulsory subject, and one of the
subjects in the national final exams (UAN and
UAS). Thus, the students’ attitude and motivation
towards learning English may be vary. Second,
the students are considered mature enough to
identify their attitude and motivation to answer a
questionnaire.
 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
• The students were not interested in learning
to speak English because the desire of their
own selves was lacking.
• The pronunciation English and Indonesian was
very much different.
• Some of the students had negative attitude
toward all of the subjects but it was in
contrast with their score in English skill.
• (It means that the naughty students sometimes
had good score in their speaking ability and active
students sometimes had low score)
• I increasingly curious about the attitude of the
students’ English classes.
• This study is intended to be conducted in a public
school because the students in public school are
very enthusiastic in learning the subjects and
show positive attitude but their scores
sometimes do not support it.
• I’m curious to know whether there is a difference
between public school and religious schools
 Research problem

• “Do students having a better attitude and

motivation have a better speaking ability?”
 Objective of study

• The purpose of this study is to know whether

there is correlation between students’
attitude and students’ motivation towards
speaking ability.
 Assumption

• There is correlation between attitude and

motivation
 Delimitation of the study
• The study aims to see the correlation between
attitude and motivation towards students’
speaking ability, particularly in transactional
conversation.
 Significance of the Study

• The result of this study is expected to contribute to the

theory that existed before. In this case theories of attitude
and motivation can help the student toward their speaking
ability and are also useful for teachers and other
researchers in subsequent research studies.
• If there is a high positive correlation between each factor
and speaking ability, it implies that it is safe to predict
students’ speaking ability by observing their motivation and
attitude.
• the result of the present study would be a useful guidance
for the teachers and other researchers to know the
correlation of the attitude and motivation toward students’
speaking ability.
 Research design

• This study employed correlational research

design to examine the degree of correlation
between attitude and motivation towards
students’ ability in speaking. Quantitative
approach was used because it deals with
numerical data and statistical analysis (Latief,
2015)
• The predictors were X 1 as the attitude and X 2 as
motivation which could not be manipulated by
the researcher. Criterion variable was Y as
students’ speaking ability. There was the
correlation coefficient.
• There were two main points, which became the
focus of the study. They were correlation
between student’s attitude (X1) and motivation
(X2) towards speaking ability (Y) and They were
the correlation between students’ attitudes (X1)
and their speaking ability (Y), the correlation
between students’ motivation (X2) and their
speaking ability (Y).
 Setting and Subjects of the Study
• The population of this study was students of MA
Matholi’’ul Anwar Simo Lamongan, 58 students
as the population. Therefore the sampling
procedures needed to be done. The current study
employs purposive random sampling technique
to select the sample of the study. This technique
was chosen to avoid awkwardness of selecting
random sampling of individual. In other words,
the already belong to certain classes and it is hard
to select them randomly as individual.
 Research Instrument

• In order to measure the students’ attitude and

motivation towards speaking ability,
questionnaires and speaking test were
employed as suggested by Henerson et al
(1987) and Creswell (2012). There were two
kinds of questionnaires: attitude and
motivation. The questionnaire was adapted
from Attitude/Motivation Test Battery
(AMTB), Istianti (2013) and Apriyani (2015).
 Collecting Data Procedures

• The first step to collect the data is choosing

the participants. The participants of this study
are third grade of senior high school. The next
step is choosing the instrument. The
instrument will be used in this study is
questionnaire and speaking test.
 Speaking Test

• The students were asked to have transactional

conversation in pairs about asking and giving
opinion (based on K-13 lesson) (Appendix 3)
RESEARCH FINDINGS