Pengaruh Kemampuan Komunikasi Lisan Terhadap Interaksi Sosial Siswa Sekolah Dasar

The formulation of the research problem is whether there is an effect of oral communication skills on the social interaction of elementary school students?. The type of research used is correlational quantitative research. The population in this study were 257 Ende 8 SDK students and the research sample was fourth grade students consisting of 2 classes, namely IVA and VB, totaling 40 people. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. The data collection technique used a questionnaire to measure oral communication and social interaction skills. Methods of Data Analysis is done by calculating descriptive statistics, classical assumption test and simple linear regression analysis test. The results showed that oral communication skills had a significant effect on the social interaction of elementary school students with a significance value (sig.) of 0.012. The calculated t value of 2.638 is greater than the t table of 2.024 and the coefficient of determination is 15.5% and the remaining 84.5% is influenced by other variables. In conclusion, the higher the student's verbal communication, the higher the social interaction. On the other hand, the lower the student's verbal communication, the lower the social interaction