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Another researcher is Budianto.
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The research was conducted at Muria University Kudus in 2011. The object of the research was the fifth semester
EED students of Muria University. The instruments that were used are tests of listening and speaking. The research finding showed that there is a significant
correlation between listening and speaking skill. The other researcher is Wina. The research was conducted at SMP 1
Karawang. The aim of her research is to know how is the implementation of English syllabus at the school especially in the aspect of listening and
speaking. Students’ listening and speaking skills are tested. As the result, there is a stronghigh correlation in which the correlation between listening skill and
speaking skill. In this research, the research was conducted at the 3
rd
semester students of EED because the researcher consider that 3
rd
semester students are the step where they are ready to speak in group. This research is a little bit resembles
to Maesaroh’s and Budianto’s research, but this research takes difference in a case. Like the previous researches, this research compares between two scores
listening and speaking, but what makes this research different from the previous ones is the researcher in this research does the test of speaking of the
3
rd
semester of EED students to see directly their speaking abilities, while the previous ones not.
E. Theoretical Thinking
According to the researcher, listening comprehension is an activity of receiving sounds and having a willingness to listen in order to get something
of what the speakers are saying. Listening is the only way to get audio input in which the audio input will be applied to speaking. This is related to Nation’s
and Newton’s theory that explained that listening is the natural precursor to speaking skill. It means that listening is the process that precedes speaking
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skill. People can speak because they know how to make the sound that they heard. The better input the listener gets the better output the listener produces.
In language learning, speaking is a skill of producing and creating a conversation between two or more people using a language and the
participants of the conversation are giving attention and also there is a turn taking between a speaker and the interlocutor. Woods stated that good
speakers are the speakers who can interact with the interlocutor. Moreover, in conversation speakers have a role as the listeners at the same time, because the
speakers have to respond to what the interlocutor as their message sources to speak.
Language output production has a role as a self-correction to the students. When the students produce language into speaking, they will get feedback
from the teacher whether their speaking or pronunciation are correct or not. Without willingness of speaking, students will have no chance to improve
their speaking skill because the skill will not be seen by the teacher or their friends to be evaluated. That is no wonder that learners who are exposed with
lot of language inputs are better in pronouncing the words in foreign language than who are not. This can happen because the learners who often listen to the
original English pronunciation will be more stimulated to imitate the native speakers’ pronunciation more that who do not. The reason is because they
know how to pronounce and how to articulate the words such as what have they listen.
The researcher assumes that building comprehension in language learning is the paramount thing in language learning. It becomes paramount because
before any skills are mastered, what the language learners can do is only listening and comprehending what they heard. Although the ability to speak in
foreign language is the aim of language learning, listening still take an important role in language learning. Moreover, learning a language is not only
learning how to speak, but it is more on how to build the comprehension in the mind. From the comprehension that built up in the mind the language learners
will began to gain other skills such as speaking, reading, and writing. That is
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how the researcher assumes that there is a correlation between listening comprehension mastery and speaking ability in language learning.
F. Hypotheses
