%X The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence whether there is a relationship or not between the students’ habit of watching English movies and their English speaking skill of the seventh-grade students of SMPN 128 Jakarta in 2018/ 2019 academic year.
This study was held in January 2019 with all of the seventh-grade students as the population and 30 students in VII-3 as the sample. The method of this study was a quantitative method in a form of a correlational study. The instruments used for collecting the data were a questionnaire on the student habit of watching English movies and a speaking test. The scores of the two variables were calculated by using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation. Based on the result of the Chi-Square test, the data of two variables have normal distribution. The result of the normality test of X and Y variables are smaller than X2t= 17.1. The result of X= -65.9884 and Y= -51.4694. The scattered diagram, form a straight linear line. From the r-test, the result of ro= 0.11 is lower than rt= 0.361. As ro < rt, it can be said Ho is accepted and Hi is rejected. From the t-test, the result of to= 0.59 is lower than tt = 1.70. Therefore, there is no significant relationship between the students’ habit of watching English movies and their English speaking skill of the seventh grade of SMPN 128 Jakarta in 2018/ 2019 Academic Year.
%A Alifia Ajeng Yasinta
%A Ahmad Zuhad
%A Neti Hartati
%L repository14344
%D 2020
%T The Relationship between the Students’ habit of Watching English Movies and their English Speaking Skill on the seventh-grade Students of SMPN 128 Jakarta in 2018/ 2019 Academic Year
%I Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka