The Correlation Between Vocabulary Mastery and Speaking Ability of The Ninth-grade Student of SMP Pelangi Dharma Nusanatara in Academic Year 2023/2024

Speaking is the way people communicate with others through voice and words. Humans communicate their thoughts, ideas, opinions, feelings, messages, and feelings through spoken language. Speaking is a skill that students must master. The focus of speaking is not only on conveying people's thoughts and feelings, but also on vocabulary learning, speaking goals, audience and grammatical structure. When students talk about something, they need to make its meaning clear to the listener. Early research shows that most IXC students at SMP Pelangi Dharma Nusantara Denpasar in the 2023/2024 academic year face problems in speaking. In addition, they have difficulties in fluency, comprehension, and grammar. In addition, this study is primarily intended to determine whether vocabulary mastery and speaking skills have a correlation in ninth grade students of SMP Pelangi Dharma Nusantara for the 2023/2024 school year Thus, to achieve this goal, researchers conducted ex post facto research. Research instruments, cloze tests, and image description tests are provided to collect the necessary data. The data were then analyzed by comparing the results of the cloze test and the image description test which showed a significant correlation between the population and the average sample score of the cloze test and the image description test. Based on the results of the research instrument, it can be concluded that there is a significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and the speaking ability of ninth grade students of SMP Pelangi Dharma Nusantara for the 2023/2024 school year.