THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING ALOUD HABIT AND SPEAKING SKILLS

*31 There are some techniques that teachers or lecturers used in helping
students’ speaking skills such as use group work, watching movie, listening to the
music and practice speaking skill through dialogue, conversation. However, not
all teacher and students know that reading aloud is a ways that can help students
speaking skills. So, this study only focuses on reading aloud as a way to help
students’ speaking skills. There are three research questions proposed in this study
namely how EED of UMY students’ reading aloud habit is, how EED of UMY
students’ speaking skill is, and what the correlation between students’ reading
aloud habit and their speaking skill is.
This research implemented correlational study which involved 132
students of EED UMY batch 2014. The instruments used in this research were
questionnaire to answer the first research question and documents of students’
speaking score to answer the second research question. The data of this research
were analyzed using descriptive statistics in SPSS program version 20.0 to find
out students’ reading aloud habit and students’ speaking skill. Then, Pearson
product moment correlation coefficient (r) in SPSS program version 20.0 was
used to answer the third research question about the correlation between students’
reading aloud habit and their speaking skills.
The result showed that students at EED of UMY batch 2014 are often did
reading aloud habit. It can be seen from the mean score of the students’ reading
aloud habit that is 2.975 which belongs to the “often” level. The result of the
second research question was students at EED of UMY batch 2014 had high level of speaking skills. It is seen from the mean score of the students’ speaking skills
(60.306). Based on the categories of students’ speaking skilsl score, 60.306
belongs to the “high” level category. Then, the reseuld of the third research
question showed that there is a positive correlation between students’ reading
aloud habit and their speaking skill but the strength of the correlation is very low
correlation. It means, the H1 (the alternative hypothesis) is accepted and the H0
(the null hypothesis) is rejected.