The INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS ON THE STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH SPEAKING AT THE ELEVENTH CLASS OF THE STUDENTS OF MA DAARUL ULUM MAJALENGKA

ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS ON THE STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH SPEAKING

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This final project is about the influence of English conversations on the student's competence in speaking skills. This is action research in speaking of eleventh-grade of students of MA DAARUL ULUUM MAJALENGKA.

The subject of the research was the eleventh grade of MA DAARUL ULUUM MAJALENGKA. The writer took class XI E as the sample of this research and thirty students were involved in this research. In order to achieve the objective of the research, he designed action research that consisted of a validity test, test, and also interview as the other instrument. There were five meetings during the research. An oral test and post-test were used to get the data.

The purposes of this research are to know the influence of English conversations on the student's competence in English speaking, to find out the students’ mastery in English conversations and to find out the students’ mastery of their competence in English speaking at the eleventh grades of the students of MA DAARUL ULUM MAJALENGKA.

The writer uses library research to collect the data and field research to find out the quantitative data by using the test as the technique. The writer computes the data by using the formula of “product moment”.

The population of the research is all of the eleventh grades of students of MA DAARUL ULUM MAJALENGKA. The students who become population consist of 231 students consisting of five classes, every class consisting of 40 or 30 students. In this research, the writer takes IPS XI of the students who become respondents as a sample consisting of 30 students.

The analysis of the influence of English conversation on the student's competence in English speaking is 0.74 which is categorized as “high correlation.

Keywords: English Conversations, Students’ competence, Speaking