The Correlation between Culinary Students' Vocabulary Mastery and their Speaking Ability of Eleventh Grade Culinary Program at SMKN 3 JEMBER

Sa'adah, Ulfa (2023) The Correlation between Culinary Students' Vocabulary Mastery and their Speaking Ability of Eleventh Grade Culinary Program at SMKN 3 JEMBER. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH ACHMAD SIDDIQ JEMBER.

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Abstract

Vocabulary is a fundamental part of language competence and plays a big role for learners in speaking, writing, reading, and listening. Vocabulary is one of the crucial aspects of speaking. Quality of one’s language skill depends on the quantity and quality of vocabulary. By having and mastering vocabulary learners will be able to speak and they can communicate and express their idea. According to TOEIC data in 2018, it showed that the English skill of vocational students was generally still below the demand of the job market in various industry types. Many previous studies have conducted research about correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and speaking ability, to fill the gap the current research carried out the research with topic that related to culinary vocabulary for culinary students.
Based on the explanation above, it can be decided the research question in this research was: Is there any significant positive correlation between culinary students’ vocabulary mastery and their speaking ability of eleventh grade culinary program at SMKN 3 Jember?. The goal of this research was to examine whether or not there is a significant positive correlation between culinary students’
vocabulary mastery and their speaking ability of eleventh grade culinary program at SMKN 3 Jember.
This research used quantitative approach and employed correlational research design. The research population was eleventh grade culinary students, which consists of 129 students. The researcher used a simple random sampling
technique to choose the sample. This research used the Yamane formula to decide number of samples. The research sample consisted of 33 students. The data
collection technique in this research was vocabulary test and speaking test. The data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment by SPSS 26 version.
Based on data analysis, it was found that the r value was 0.468, which means positive, and the significance value (ρ value) 0.006 < 0.05 (significance level) means H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. It can be concluded that there
was a significant positive correlation between culinary students' vocabulary mastery and their speaking ability of eleventh grade culinary program at SMKN 3 Jember. It meant that the culinary students who had lots of vocabulary would also have great speaking skill.
Key Word: Vocabulary Mastery, Speaking Ability

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