creators_name: Iqbal , Hatta Abdul Hafidz creators_id: 1713042044 type: other datestamp: 2025-01-24 04:02:24 lastmod: 2025-01-24 04:02:24 metadata_visibility: show title: CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE AND THEIR SPEAKING PERFORMANCE AT ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMKN 2 KOTA METRO ispublished: pub subjects: 370 subjects: 706 full_text_status: restricted abstract: This study investigated the correlation between students' willingness to communicate (WTC) and their speaking performance among eleventh-grade students of SMKN 2 Kota Metro. The population of this study was all students of SMKN 2 Kota Metro, with a sample taken from class XI OTO 1, consisting of 30 students. Utilizing a quantitative research method, the data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment correlation. The research instrument was a questionnaire containing 10 items. The validity of the instrument was found to be greater than 0.361, and the reliability was 0.865. The results indicated a Pearson correlation coefficient (r) of 0.734 between WTC and speaking performance. Furthermore, the p-value for this correlation was less than 0.01, demonstrating that the relationship was statistically significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). These findings was a strong and significant positive correlation between students' willingness to communicate and their speaking performance, emphasizing the importance of fostering communication willingness to improve speaking skills. Keywords: Willingness to Communicate (WTC), Speaking Performance. date: 2024-06-14 date_type: published publisher: FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN place_of_pub: UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG citation: Iqbal , Hatta Abdul Hafidz (2024) CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE AND THEIR SPEAKING PERFORMANCE AT ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMKN 2 KOTA METRO. FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN, UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG. document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/81457/1/open%5B8%5D document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/81457/2/open%5B5%5D document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/81457/3/open%5B8%5D