The Correlation among Anxiety, Language Learning Strategies and Speaking Skills at SMA Negeri 1 Pagelaran Pringsewu Lampung

Abstract

This study's research was to determine whether there was a significant correlation among students' anxiety, language learning strategies, and speaking skills at SMA Negeri 1 Pagelaran Pringsewu Lampung. This type of research is a quantitative study. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Pagelaran Pringsewu Lampung with a population of XI IPA 3 and XI IPA 4 graders with a total of 54 students. Then the population is divided into two classes: the tryout class and the test class as the research sample. The instrument used in this research is a questionnaire on anxiety, language learning strategies, and speaking test. The data were analyzed using Multiple Linear Regression Formula in SPSS 25.0 for windows. The result of T-test 1 showed that the significant value was 0.03. It indicated .000 smaller than the value of α = 0.05, whereas the calculated t value is greater than the table (2.303 > 2064). The result of T test 2 showed that the significant value was 0.02, which is smaller than the value of α = 0.05 (0.02 < 0.05), and the t value is greater than the t table (2.318 > 2. 064). F test showed that the significant value was 0.000 which is smaller than the value of α = 0.05 (0.02 < 0.05) and the F value is greater than F tables (16.729 > 3.39). The result of the R square of coefficients determination was .582, which means the influence of anxiety and language learning strategies on speaking skills was 58.2%. Therefore, the hypothesis of all the results was Ho was rejected, and Ha was accepted. It means there is a correlation among students' anxiety, students' language learning strategies, and their speaking skills. Keywords: Correlation, Anxiety, Language Learning Strategies, Speaking Skills