Correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation, and speaking ability of students in junior high school

Received Jul 11, 2021 Revised Aug 5, 2021 Accepted Aug 30, 2021 This thesis is concerned with the inquiry on the correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation and the seventh grade students’ speaking ability of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS. The problem of this study is to investigate the correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation and speaking ability. The total number of the population was 76 students. The sample for this study was 52 students taken through cluster random sampling technique. Data were collected by adopting questionnaire for learning strategy and learning motivation, and a test for speaking ability. Data were analyzed by using r-product moment and multiple regression. Findings show that there are significant correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation, and speaking ability. Conclusions suggest that learning strategy and learning motivation have significant correlations with speaking ability. Keyword:


Introduction
Speaking is communication process between at least two people and speaking is a way to express someone's idea.
[1] defines speaking as a two-way process between speaker and listener and it involves the productive skill and receptive skill of understanding. Speaking seems to be easy to do, but we do not only speak, we also communicate each other with people by using language.
In speaking skill, the students often find some problems. The problem frequently found is that their first language causes them to get difficulty in using the second language.
[2] points out several problems which are faced by poor learners in learning English as a foreign language. First, students can not sustain spoken interaction beyond short segments. Second, students experience frequent communication breakdowns and misunderstandings. Third, students lack of vocabulary that is needed to talk about common utterances. Fourth, students lack of communication strategies. Fifth, students speak slowly and take too long to compose utterances. The last, students cannot participate actively in conversation. Seventh, their spoken English does not sound natural.
In order to become successful in speaking, the students need particular learning strategies. Some students are good and some them are failed. It might be caused by the language learning strategies. In any case, When the students use a greater variety and number of learning strategies, more proficient he/she would be. In parallel to this, After seeing the role of learning strategies in improving students' speaking performance, a

Method
This research conducted for the seventh grade students of SMPN 03 Muaradua OKUS, in the academic year of 2020/2021. The reason of choosing this method is that the researcher wants to know the strength of the relation of two or more variables based on correlation coefficient. There are three possible results of a correlational study a positive correlation, a negative correlation, and no correlation. The correlational coefficient is a measure of correlation strength and can range from -1.00 to +1.00. Perfect positive correlation would result in a score of +1. Perfect negative correlation would result in -1 [13].
1. Positive correlations: both variables improve or decrease at the same time. A correlation coefficient close to +1.00 indicates a strong positive correlation.
2. Negative correlations: indicates that as the amount of one variable improves the other decreases. A correlation coefficient close to -1.00 indicates a strong negative correlation.
3. No correlations : indicates no relationship between the two variables. A correlation coefficient of indicates no correlation.
The stages that will be taken by the writer in collecting the data: reading literature dealing with the problems, determining the variable and data sources, determining and collecting the instrument of measurement, doing the test and questionnaire, collecting the data, analyzing the data, drawing the conclusion, and writing the report.

Correlation between Learning Strategy and Speaking Ability
The first hypothesis was tested as follows:  Ha : There is a significant correlation between learning strategy and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.  Ho : There is not any significant correlationbetween learning strategy and speaking ability of the Seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.
To calculate the regression among three variables, the researcher used r-Product Moment. The result of the calculation is presented in Table below. Table 1 shows that p-value is 0,019. This value is lower than 0,05. This is significant. So Ha is accepted while Ho is rejected. Therefore, there is a significant correlation between learning strategy and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMPNegeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.

Correlation between Learning Motivation and Speaking Ability
The second hypothesis was tested as follows:

Correlations
Learning Startegy Speaking Ability  -tailed) .001 N 52 52 Table 2 shows that p-value is 0,001. This value is lower than 0,05. This is significant. So Ha is accepted while Ho is rejected. Therefore, there is a significant correlation between learning motivation and speaking ability of the Seventh grade students of SMPNegeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.

Correlation between Learning Strategy and Learning Motivation
The third hypothesis was tested as follows:  Ha : There is a significant correlation between learning strategy and learning motivation of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.  Ho : There is not any significant correlation between learning strategy and learning motivation of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.
To calculate the regression among three variables, the researcher used r-Product Moment. The result of the calculation is presented in Table below.  Table 3 shows that p-value is 0,024. This value is lower than 0,05. This is significant. So Ha is accepted while Ho is rejected. Therefore there is a significant correlation between learning strategy and learning motivation of the Seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.

Correlations among Learning strategy, Learning Motivation and Speaking Ability
The fourth hypothesis was tested as follows: Correlations amon learning strategy...  Ha :There are significant correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation, and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.  Ho :There are not any significant correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation, and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.
To calculate the regression among three variables, the researcher used Multiple Regression. The result of the calculation is presented in Table below.  Table 4 shows that p-value is 0,004. This value is lower than 0,05. This is significant. So Ha is accepted while Ho is rejected. Therefore, there are significant correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation, and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.

Discussions
This research was conducted for the eleventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua. This research has three types of data. They are learning strategy, learning motivation, and speaking ability. The data of learning strategy were collected by using questionnaire which administrated on October 9th-, 2020, the data of learning motivation were collected by using questionnaire which administrated on October 9th, 2020 and the data of speaking ability were collected by using an oral test through transactional conversation administrated on November 3rd , 2020. In scoring students' speaking ability, the researcher assisted by a rater. She is Mrs. TemyRosalinda,S.Pd.She is a English teacher of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua OKUS.
First, finding from hypothesis testing no.1 proved there is significant correlation between learning strategy (X1) and speaking ability (Y). The significant level was 0,019 < 0,05 consequently Ho is rejected. It means that there is a significant correlation between learning strategy and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua. It means that the contribution of students' learning strategy to students' speaking is influenced by other factors. Learning strategy is a personal factor that plays a supportive role in achievement foreign language learning. This is supported by the result of data calculation. It shows that there is a correlation between learning strategy and speaking ability.
Second, finding from hypothesis testing no.2 proved there is significant correlation between learning motivation (X2) and speaking ability (Y). The significant level was 0,001 > 0,05 consequently Ha is accepted. It means that there is a significant correlation between learning motivation and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua. It means that the contribution of students' learning motivation to students' speaking ability is influenced by other factors. The students who have high motivation will make an effort to follow the learning process intensively, and they learn the lesson as well as possible not only in the school but also out of the school. They are motivated to enrich their vocabulary and to practice their speaking ability. Moreover, motivated students usually feel enjoyable in their learning. It makes them easier to speak up confidently wherever they are although English is a foreign language. This is supported by the result of data calculation. It shows that there is a correlation between learning motivation and speaking ability.
Third, finding from hypothesis testing no.3 proved there is a significant correlation between learning strategy (X1) and learning motivation (X2). The significant level was 0,024 < 0,05 consequently Ho is rejected. It means that there is a significant correlation between learning strategy and learning motivation of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua. Learning strategy is important, If people have strategy, their knowledge will be wider, they are going to get so much information from the things that they read, and they get something. In other words, we can conclude that learning strategy is important in our life.Therefore, in the process of learning, motivation can be said as an inner drive to achieve learning activity so the purpose of the subject learning can be maintained in the educational environment. If the students have low of their learning strategy, they will not be motivated in learning. It means they will have low learning motivation. Vol. 6, No. 3, 2021, pp. 683-688 688 Journal homepage: https://jurnal.iicet.org/index.php/jpgi Fourth, finding from hypothesis testing no.4 proved there are significant correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation, and speaking ability. The significant change level was 0,004 > 0,05 consequently Ha is accepted. It means that there are significant correlations among learning strategies, learning motivation, and speaking ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 03 Muaradua. It means there are correlations among learning strategy, learning motivation and speaking ability simultaneously. = 0,004 means that the contribution of students' learning strategy and learning motivation to students' speaking ability is is influenced by other factors.

Conclusions
In line with the findings in the previous chapter, the following conclusions can be drawn as follows: