THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ HABIT TO WATCH ENGLISH YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND THEIR SPEAKING SKILL

The purpose of this research was to find out the correlation between the second-year students’ habit to watch English YouTube channel and their speaking skill at the English Department of Bung Hatta University. The design of this research was correlational research. The population of this study was the second-year students who registered in the academic year of 2020/2021. Due to the limited number of population members, the researcher used total sampling technique. The number of the sample as respondents in this research was 30 students. The instruments used to get the data were questionnaire and speaking tests. It was found that the reliability index of the questionnaire was 0.82 and the reliability index of the speaking test was 0.72. The result of the data analysis showed that the value of rcalculated of this research was 0.74, while the value of rtable with the level of significance 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df= n-2) was 0.374. 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