scholarly journals The Influence of Intelligence on Student's Speaking Skills

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Wira Kafryawan ◽  
Abdul Hakim Yassi ◽  
Nasmilah Nasmilah
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Speaking Skills

Intelligence is one of psychological factors which affect the speaking proficiency. Therefore, this study aims at finding out whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ intelligence and their speaking skills. With regard to the methodology applied in this study, a correlation research was used to determine whether, and to what degree, a relationship exists between two or more quantifiable variables in form of quantitative method. Purposive sampling was used in the correlational research due to the assumption that the selected students were able to give information or data in relation to the research problems based on the research design. Thus, 40 students were chosen as the samples. The study was conducted at the first-year students of SMA Negeri 2 Makassar. Moreover, the quantifiable data were obtained from speaking test based on the Heaton assessment and intelligence test based on the Barret assessment which were distributed to the students. The data were then analyzed by Pearson product moment. The findings showed that there was a significant correlation between students’ intelligence and their speaking skills in degree of high correlation. In other words, the assumption views that the higher intelligence belongs to students the better ability they speak.

scholarly journals The Influence of Motivation on EFL Learners’ Speaking Skills

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-619
Author(s):  
Wira Kafryawan
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Speaking Skills

Motivation is one of some psychological factors which influences the speaking proficiency. Therefore, this study aims at finding out whether or not there is a significant correlation between EFL learners’ motivation and their speaking skills. With regard to the methodology applied in this study, a correlation research was used to determine whether, and to what degree, a relationship exists between two or more quantifiable variables in form of quantitative method. Purposive sampling was used in the correlational research due to the assumption that the selected students were able to give information or data in relation to the research problems based on the research design. Thus, 46 learners were chosen as the samples. The study was conducted at learners in SMA Negeri 1 Marisa, Pohuwato Regency, Gorontalo. Moreover, the quantifiable data were obtained from speaking test based on the Heaton assessment and motivation test based on the Likert Scale assessment which were distributed to the learners. The data were then analyzed by Pearson product moment. The findings showed that there was a significant correlation between EFL learners’ motivation and their speaking skills in degree of high correlation. In other words, the assumption views that that the higher motivation belongs to EFL Learners to speak the better ability they speak.

scholarly journals THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND READING COMPREHENSION OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMPN 1 CISARUA BANDUNG BARAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Pilli Parliyah ◽  
Tanty Khotimah
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Reading Motivation ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Comprehension Skill ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Academic Year

The objective of this study is to know the correlation between students’ motivation and their achievement in reading comprehension. The research used quantitative method and correlational research as design. The population of the study was the seventh grade students of Junior High School 1 cisarua, Kabupaten Bandung Barat in academic year 2017/2018 with total number 395 students and the sample in this study is 32 students. Instruments for data collection were the questionnaire to find out students’ motivation and the reading comprehension test. Pearson Product Moment was used to analyze the data and the hypothesis testing was computed by applying SPSS version 22. It was found that there is a significant correlation between students’ motivation and their achievement in reading because the correlation coefficient was 0.658. It was classified into high correlation . Thus, there is a significant correlation between reading motivation and reading motivation. The result can be interpreted that students’ motivation had strong effect to reading comprehension skill.  It is suggested the English teachers have to create teaching strategies that will motivate the students to read in class.Keywords: Correlation, students’ motivation, reading, achievement. 

scholarly journals The Use of Monologue Speaking Tasks to Improve First-Year Students’ English-Speaking Skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Irina Karpovich ◽  
Oksana Sheredekina ◽  
Tatyana Krepkaia ◽  
Larisa Voronova
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

A significant number of studies are devoted to the psychological and social adaptation of students to the educational process at university. This research contributes to the solution of the problem of first-year students’ academic performance in the framework of studying a foreign language by working with monologue speaking tasks. The study offers an analysis of the improvement of academic performance in this particular type of language activity. The study took place at Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia, and involved 274 first-year students enrolled in undergraduate programs. Mixed qualitative and quantitative methods were applied to collect and analyse data for the study. The research included the qualitative content analysis of monologue speaking tasks. Results of the study make it possible to conclude that the use of monologue speaking tasks paired with peer interaction and peer assessment can improve first-year students’ English-speaking skills.

scholarly journals THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ANXIETY AND SPEAKING SKILL AT STKIP KUSUMA NEGARA JAKARTA (A survey research first semester academic year 2018/2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Megawati Megawati
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Smirnov Test

<p>The purpose of this research is to know whether there is any correlation between students’anxiety and speaking skill at STKIP Kusuma Negara Jakarta, first semester  academic year 2018/2019.</p><p>This research used quantitative method and the design was correlational research. The sample of this research consists of 25 students. The data of the students’anxiety were collected by using the questionaire which was adopted from foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale Horwitz et.at FLCAS, while the data of students’speaking skill were collected by using speaking test. In this research, researcher has two variables, independent variable which variable students’anxiety and dependent variable consists of students’ speaking skill.</p><p>The researcher use SPSS program, before doing the analysis the data normality was tested by using Kolmogorf-Smirnov test to see if the population was distributed normal. The result of this research concluded that there is significant correlation between variable (X) students’anxiety and variable (Y) speaking skill. Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.001 &lt; 0.05. It means that students who have higher speaking skill, they was influenced by anxiety. The value of correlation coefficient is -0.629 &lt;0.5. It means that there is negative correlation between students’anxiety and speaking skill. If the students’anxiety is high so speaking skill is low and if the students’anxiety is low so speaking skill is high.</p>

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN ANTARA PENGHARGAAN DIRI DAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS OLEH SISWA TAHUN PERTAMA DI SMAN 1 PEKANBARU

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Rizka Desia Asri ◽  
Jismulatif Jismulatif
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Coefficient Corrélation ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

The objective of this research is to determine the correlation between self-esteem and writing ability of the first year students of SMAN 1 Pekanbaru. This is a correlational research that hastwo variables. The sample of this research is one class consisted of 36 students. The class was chosen by using Cluster Random Sampling Technique. Self-esteem questionnaire and writing test were used to collect the data. The self-esteem data were collected by using a set of questionnaire FLSES (Foreign Language Self-Esteem Scale) designed by Hassan (2001). The data of writing ability were taken by administaring test of writing. The collected data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The result shows that there is low correlation between students’ self-esteem and writing ability with the correlation value 0.312, while the coefficient correlation is as big as 9.7 %. The self-esteem of the students is categorized in “average” level and the writing ability is categorized in “good” level. It indicates that the students’ self-esteem influences their writing ability. Based on the finding, probably it would be better for the students to pay attantion on personality aspect, such as self-esteem in learning process of writing.

scholarly journals Ways of increasing motivation to study disciplines on the profile of training by means of a foreign language

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Olga D. Kropotkina ◽  
Tatyana P. Frolova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Research Problems

The article deals with the peculiarities of the educational process in a technical University in order to increase the motivation of students through learning a foreign language. The concepts of «motive» and «motivation» in a broad sense of the word are revealed, and in particular, the concept of «motives of scientific activity» is given through the prism of the classification of personal motives. The paper analyzes the provisions on this issue, described in the works of such researchers as D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya, J. Dewey, A. Maslow, D. Halpern, M. G. Yaroshevsky, etc. Most researchers emphasize that the research activity is a creative interaction of the main subjects of the educational process, the result of which is the development of students’ subjectively new knowledge by solving research problems. The aim of this article is to consider the ways of increasing motivation to study disciplines in the profile of training by attracting students to research activity by means of a foreign language. The article proposes a program of involvement of students in research activity taking into account modern requirements for professional training of University graduates. The article is based on research results, questionnaires, observations and a survey conducted among first-year and second year students and the first-year students in the master’s program of the Polytechnic University, those who continue studying English.

scholarly journals Malaysian Undergraduates’ Perceptions of Online Approach via Skype in Developing Speaking Skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (18) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Sarala Thulasi Palpanadan ◽  
Iqbal Ahmad ◽  
Tamil Selvan A/L Subramaniam
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
First Year ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Reflective Journals ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Technical Division ◽  
Esl Learners ◽  
Speaking Skills

Speaking skill pedagogy has always remained a huge enigma for English as a Second Language (ESL) educators. Despite the challenges, the need to master the skills prevail in academia. The undergraduates especially those from the technical division seem to grapple with the ability to perform well in their studies and market their products upon employment due to the inability to communicate well in English. Nowadays, there are numerous platforms available for ESL learners to improve their speaking proficiency. Thus, this paper intended to study the effectiveness of using Skype as an online platform to help students enhance their confidence in speaking in English. 100 reflective journals of first year undergraduates who enrolled in an English course were collected. Meanwhile, 10 undergraduates were randomly selected to participate in the semi-structured interview. All the participants’ reflections and views were analyzed and thematized using Transana software. Four main themes emerged: account possession; familiarity; challenges; and features. It was found that many participants were aware of Skype but did not have the account prior to the study. Majority of the participants admitted that Skype activities helped them to converse better which enhanced their motivation to speak in English more confidently and fluently.

scholarly journals Socially-Psychological Factors of Adaptation of FirstYear students in the Higher and Average Professional Educational Institutions

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
O. N. Lokatkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Successful Adaptation ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Students First

The article reveals features of adaptation of students-first-year students in establishments of an average professional reveal and higher education, the socially-psychological factors influencing process of adaptation of students are investigated. Reveals communication between successful adaptation and the sociallypsychological factors.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING BY USING PICTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Marina Sari Rambe
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
English Class ◽  
Speak Up ◽  
Learning Language ◽  
The Way

Learning Language as well as learning English is also the implementation of searching knowledge. The goals in language learning is the students are able to speak English well and use English as their language to communicate with another people in daily life. In language learning, speaking is one of the important things to have, but the students are not able to speak up in English class. Using media is one of the way that can improve the students achievement in speaking class. The researcher will be focus to use picture as media in this research. The researcher formulate there is an improvement of students achievement in speaking by using picture as the problem in this research. The researcher use Classroom Action Research (CAR) Method to analyze the data in this research. The researcher take the first year students of MTS N 2 Medan as the population and 30 students as sample where the researcher get the sample by random. The research take 2cycle in this research. The instrument to applied to collect the data was speaking test. Besides that, the writer also used interview, observation sheet and diary note to identify what happened in the classroom. After analyzed the data, it was obtained that means increased from the Test-1 in cycle I 71,73% until test-3 in cycle II 83,40 % and the total score increased 90.0% . So, the use of picture improve students’ speaking achievement.

scholarly journals Teaching English Speaking Skills to the First-Year Students Majoring in Oriental Philology

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Tetiana Druzhchenko ◽  
Olena Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
First Year ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Power Of Words ◽  
Speaking Skills

The publication is a detailed lesson plan on the topic “The Power of Words” within the discipline “General course of Western European language”. Meant for the first-year students majoring in Oriental Philology, the course aims at developing English communicative competence through enhancing reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. All the exercises and the tasks suggested in this lesson meet the basic principles of communicative, student-centered approach to teaching foreign languages. The lesson focuses on interactional skills in the first-year students majoring in philology.

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