THE IMPACT OF TEACHER TALK TOWARDS STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE ATTITUDE IN LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL

SINTIKE MANGNGEMBA.2025. “ The Impact of Teacher Talk towards
Students’ Language Attitude in Learning English Speaking Skill”. (Supervised by
Matius Tandikombong, M.Pd. and Dr. Selvi Panggua, M.Pd.).
The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of teacher talk towards
students’ language attitude in learning English speaking Skill. The researcher
conducted the research used quantitative method. The convenience sampling was
used to obtain data from 19 students of the 7th semester of English Education study
program who had participated all the speaking class. The data were obtained by
questionnare technique. Data were analyzed using correlation coefficient (Pearson
product moment), coefficient of determination and linear regression.
The result of hypothesis testing using the simple regression linier, t-value of 5.053
which is positive with a significance level of 0.000 <0.05. It means that the Null
Hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, which
shows that teacher talk has an impact on students' language attitudes (positive) (Ha)
is accepted, with a strong level of relationship. This can be seen from the correlation
coefficient value is 0.755.
The conclusion is teacher talk has a positive impact towards students’ language
attitude in learning english speaking skill. These results show that teacher talk is an
important factor in shaping students' language attitudes, so the communication
approach used by lecturers in learning English speaking needs to be designed
effectively to achieve better results.
Keywords: impact, teacher talk, language attitude, english speaking skill