Motivation on Students’ Speaking Ability at SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan

Abstract

Abstract

Many factors prevent students in doing speaking especially in English. As one of the skills that need to be acquired by the students in learning English, they often face the problem such as they never practice, no confident, afraid of making mistakes, no ideas and lack of motivation. In fact, those problems was confronted by students of SMA N 8 Padangsidimpuan. One factor that gave big effect on students learning is Motivation. This research was done in SMA N 8 Padangsidimpuan. The population of this research is 209 students of grade X in the academic year 2020/2021. While the sample was taken from two classes, they are the class of X IA 1 and X IA with the total 45.  The instrument that was used in this study is questionaire and speaking test. After obtaining the score, the next step is analyzing the data by using two–way ANOVA with the level of significance 5% or 0.05. (SPSS). The result of data analysis showed that the score of the mean of students’ achievement in speaking ability with high motivation was 79.12 and the mean score on students’ achievement in speaking ability with low motivation is 62.981. data analysis by using two-way ANOVA test indicates the P = 0,000> 0.05 (SPSS). Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) has been rejected and Ha was accepted.