THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ANXIETY AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SPEAKING FOR ENGLISH CONVERSATION COURSE

Abstract : The aimed of this research was to found out the correlation between
student anxiety and their speaking achievement in English Conversation course.
This study was descriptive research. The subject of this research were second
semester students of English Study Program at Bengkulu University. The data
were collected by using questionnaire and test. The researcher used person
product moment formula to calculate the correlation and interpretation of
correlation by Arikunto (2013) to determine the strength of correlation. There
were two hypothesis namely H0 means that there was no correlation between the
two variables and Ha means that there was a negative or positive correlation
between the two variables. The result of this research shows that, from the
significance 2 tailed, the value of significance level was .001 which is < .05 and
the correlation coefficient value was -422 (the signal ‘negative’ indicated the
significant negative correlation and the value 422 showed the strength of
correlation). It can be summarized that, there was a significant negative
correlation between students anxiety and their speaking achievement in English
conversation course in moderate level. It means that H0 was rejected and Ha was
accepted.
Keyword : Correlation, Anxiety, Speaking, Achievement, Conversation