THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PARTS OF SPEECH MASTERY AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY

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Speaking is one of language skills who has important role in communication. It is as an
interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving and
processing information.There are many things related to speaking, one of them is parts
of speech mastery. Parts of speech (POS) is the core of sentences especially in academic
contexts. There are five types of words which are very influential in studying English at
basic level, those are noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, and adjective. If one is not able to
differentiate among noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, and adjective, it will make ambiguous
in his sentences. Then, his interlocutors are not able to understand the meaning of his
spoken. This condition leads to lacking communication.That is way mastering parts of
speech is very essential in learning English speaking.This objective of this study is to
see the correlation between students’ parts of speech mastery and their ability in
speaking. The study was carry out in a population of 93 students at the third semester of
English department of FKIP UNISKA Muhammad ArsyadAl Banjari Banjarmasin.
Data collection involved test as an instrument. The kind of test were multiple choice test
to measure the students’ parts of speech mastery and interview test to measure their
ability in speaking. To achieve the purpose of this study, the data were analyzed by
using Pearson Product Moment formula with the help of SPSS. The result of analysis
shows that the correlation coefficient (r) between the two variables is .979. It means that
there is a significant correlation between the students’ parts of speech mastery and their
ability in speaking. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the students’ parts of
speech mastery can be used to predict their ability in speaking.