EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND ITS EFFECT ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY: A CASE STUDY AT UNIVERSITAS BHINNEKA PGRI

• Rahmatun Nadira Amalia

  Universitas Bhinneka PGRI

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• Moh. Hanafi

  Universitas Bhinneka PGRI

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This study aims to determine whether students' English speaking ability is influenced by their educational background. This study is a quantitative causal comparative study. The population of this study is all students from the English Education Study Program at Universitas Bhinneka PGRI academic year 2024/2025. The sample for this study consists of 15 sixth-semester students with high school (SMA) and vocational high school (SMK) backgrounds. The sample used by the researcher is purposive sampling. The instruments used to collect data are questionnaires and speaking tests. Data analysis was conducted using the Independent T-Test in the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 program for Windows.

          The findings indicate that the English speaking ability of high school graduates is better than that of vocational school graduates. This is evidenced by the significant value of 0.004 < 0.05, which means that there is a statistically significant difference between high school graduates and vocational school graduates. Additionally, this is supported by the data from the research questionnaire. Based on the questionnaire data in the Background factors section, high school graduates showed a result of 64.25%, indicating that their background helped them speak English. For vocational school graduates, the data showed a result of 62.5%, but this result was not higher than that of high school graduates. Based on the research results, educational background influences students' English speaking ability.

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