THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE AND THEIR ENGLISH-SPEAKING SKILL ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

_{Linguistic intelligence plays a pivotal role in speaking skills as it involves the capacity to understand and manipulate language effectively. This research aims to investigate the correlation between students' linguistic intelligence and their English-speaking skill achievement within the context of the English Education Department at the University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri. The researcher used correlation research and a quantitative approach by examining the correlation between students' final grades. The subject of this research is fourth-grade students, the sample consists of 38 students. The result shows that there is a significant correlation between student’s linguistic intelligence and their English-speaking skill achievement. It is proven by the result of data analysis which rxy is 0.822. In a standard significant table, for standard significant 5% rt is 0.444. While for standard significance, 1% rt is 0.561. So, the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Therefore, it can be summarized that linguistic intelligence has a strong correlation to English-speaking skill achievement.}