Mulyani (2012) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ANXIETY LEVEL AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 ENOK INDRAGIRI HILIR REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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It is a correlation research. The writer prepared a questionnaire to measure the students’ anxiety level variable symbolized as X variable and speaking test to know the students’ speaking ability at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok symbolized as Y variable. This research was conducted at SMAN 1 Enok. The subject of this research is the second year students of SMAN 1 Enok and the object of this research is the students’ anxiety level and their speaking ability at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok. The objectives of this research are: 1. To find out the students’ anxiety level at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok. 2. To find out the students’ ability in speaking English at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok. 3. To verify whether or not there is correlation between students’ anxiety level and their speaking ability at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok. The population of this research is 100 persons. The writer took 47% of the number of population. It means that the writer took 47 persons of them as the sample. In order to collect the data of this research, the writer used questionnaire and speaking test. The questionnaire is to find out the students’ anxiety level at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok and the speaking test is to find out the students’ speaking ability at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok. The writer used SPSS 15.0 to analyze the data. Based on the analysis of the data, the percentage obtained for the students’ anxiety level is 62.84%. It means their anxiety level is at middle category. While, the percentage score obtained of their speaking ability is 68.17%. It means that their speaking ability is at middle category. Moreover, the score of the significant correlation between students’ anxiety level and their speaking ability is 0.503. This is compared to the result of “r” product moment, where at 5% of significance level is 0.288 and 1% of significance level is 0.372. The score obtained is higher than “r” table either 5% or 1%. It can be formulated as 0.288<0.503>0.372. It means the correlation between the students’ anxiety level and their speaking ability at the second year of SMAN 1 Enok is high.

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