RISK-TAKING AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY: DO THEY CORRELATE?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22460/eltin.v6i1.p34-45Keywords:
Risk-Taking, Speaking capability, Correlation designAbstract
The students’ speaking ability somehow depends on some psychological issues such as motivation, self-esteem, or risk-taking. This research aims at examining the correlation of students’ speaking skill especially with their level of risk-taking. The method used in this research is a quantitative research method with the correlational design. The Null hypothesis was “there is no correlation between Risk-taking and Speaking Abilityâ€.The researchers used the speaking test and questionnaire about risk-taking as the instruments to gather the data. Before examining the correlation between those two variables, the normality test was conducted. The result showed that the data were in normal distribution so that the analysis was statistically continued using Pearson Product Moment. From the calculation, sig. 2-tailed of both risk-taking and speaking were 0.000 which was lower than the level of significance (0.05). It means that the Null hypothesis is rejected and the final result told that there is a correlation between Risk-Taking and Speaking Ability. While the Pearson correlation reached the point of 0.685 which means that the correlation between those two was large. Finally, we could conclude that risk-taking can be an issue to take into account choosing some methods of teaching speaking.ÂReferences
Argawati, N. O. (2014). Improving Students’speaking Skill Using Group Discussion (Experimental study on the First Grade Students of Senior High School). ELTIN JOURNAL, 74-81.
Argawati, N. O., & Syahrizal, T. (2016). The Use of Task-Based Instruction to Improve Speaking Skill to the Second Semester Students of STKIP Siliwangi Bandung on the Academic year of 2014-2015. Jurnal P2M STKIP Siliwangi.
Argawati, N. O., & Suryani, L. (2017). Teaching Writing Using Think-Pair-Share viewed from Students' Level of Risk-Taking. ERJEE, 109-116.
Bang, Y. (1999). Factors affecting Korean students’ risk-taking behavior in ESL classroom. Dissertation. Ohio University. Ohio. Retrieved from http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=osu1243019322
Boonkit, K. (2010). Enhancing the Development of Speaking Skills for Non Native Speaker of English. Procedia Social and Behavioral Science, 1305-1309.
Brown, H. D. (2001). Teaching by principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. San Francisco: Pearson Education, Inc.
Brown, H.D. (2007). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
Burgucu, A. et. al. (2010). Who are Our Students? Investigating Learners’ Risk Taking Ability and Achievement on Second Language Acquisition. 2nd International Symposium on Sustainable Development. Taken from http://eprints.ibu.edu.ba/320/1/ISSD2010Socialscience_p1-p6.pdf
Bygate, M. (1997). Speaking. New York: Oxford University Press
Cervantes, I.M. (2013). The Role of Risk-Taking Behavior in the Development of Speaking Skills in ESL Classrooms. Revista de Lenguas Modernas, No. 19, 421-435.
Cohen. (1988). SPSS survival manual: a step by step guide data analysis using SPSS for windows third edition. New York: Open University Press.
Creswell, J.W. (2012). Educational research. Buston: Pearson Education.
Hasanah, H. U. (2017). Teaching Speaking Using Tea Party Technique. OKARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, Vol. 11, No. 2, November 2017, 263-276.
Hughes, A. (2003). Testing for language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Liu, M., & Jackson, J. (2008). An exploration of Chinese EFL learners’ unwillingness to communicate and foreign language anxiety. The Modern Language Journal, 92(1), 71-86
Luft, S. (2007). Language classroom risk- taking behavior in a performed culture based program. Thesis, School of the Ohio State University. Retrieved on August, 2012 from http://etd.ohiolink.eduview,cgiacc.num= osul 122970 1363.
Maeng, U. (2008). English Teachers’ Language Anxiety in the Intensive Teacher Training Program and in the Classroom. English Language & Literature Teaching, 14(149-172).
Meriem, B. (2015). The Effects of Risk Taking on the Learning of Spoken English at University. Expression: Juny No 1, p 84- 94
Suryani, L. (2015). The effectiveness of role play in teaching speaking. ELTIN Journal, October, volume 3/II, 106-109.
Thornbury, S. (2005). How to teach speaking. New York: Pearson Education Inc.
Zhang, Y. (2009). Reading to speak: intergarating oral communication skills. English Teaching Forum , 42-43.
