The Correlation between Anxiety and English Speaking Ability of The Seventh Grade Students of SMP Wisata Sanur in Academic Year 2023/2024

The research aims at finding out The Correlation between Anxiety and English Speaking Ability of The Seventh Grade Students of SMP Wisata Sanur in Academic Year 2023/2024. The population of this research consist 245 students from the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Wisata Sanur in Academic Year 2023/2024. The samples of this study are 40 students which were taken by cluster random sampling technique. The design of this study was correlational research. In collecting the data of this research, the writer used two instruments which were Anxiety questionnaire consisted of 30 items and monologue speaking test. The data was analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in IBM SPSS Statistics 25. According to the result of the analysis and statistical calculation, it is found that r was -0.446. It shows that there is significant correlation between Anxiety and English Speaking Ability of The Seventh Grade Students of SMP Wisata Sanur in Academic Year 2023/2024. In conclusion, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. .