The correlation between students’ speaking motivation and speaking ability of FTIK Students at Ma’had Al-Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed about the correlation between students’ speaking motivation and speaking ability at Ma’had Al-Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were students are lack of vocabulary, students often complain that they cannot think of anything to say, students feel that they are lack of confidence as the result they feel shyness, students are also lack of practicing English neither in the classroom nor in the real communication, and students are afraid of making mistakes and being laugh by their classmate. The kind of this research is quantitative research with correlational method. The population of this research was the 1st semester of the students at Ma’had Al-Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan, they were 495 students. Then, the sample of the research was the 1st class. They were 26 students taken by using purposive sampling techniques. This technique was taken because of some purposes. The first purpose is the students have same level of intelligence in English based on their placement test. The second is the recommendation of English lecturer, Mariah Ulfah Siagian in Ma’had AlJami’ah Baharuddin Campus IAIN Padangsidimpuan. To collect the data, researcher used questionnaire for students’ speaking motivation and test to know students’ speaking ability and then researcher collected the test by video record. To analyze the data, the researcher used product moment formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of Variable X was 72.11 and mean score of Variable Y was 70.42. Besides, the score of rxy was higher than rtable (0.98> 0.388). The result showed that there was correlation between two variables in very high category. It means the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was a correlation between students’ speaking motivation and speaking ability at 1st class in the 1st semester of FTIK Students at Ma’had Al-Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan