Khirzatur Rosyidah , 2201412099 (2019) EVALUATING STUDENTS’ NATIONAL EXAMINATION SCORES AND THEIR MASTERY OF PRONUNCIATION (A Correlation Study of Grade X of MAN 2 Jepara in the Academic Year of 2018/2019). Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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This study attempts to find out the correlation between students’ national examination achievement and their mastery of pronunciation to the tenth grade students of MAN 2 Jepara. The subject was tenth graders of MAN 2 Jepara in the academic year of 2018/2019. The sample was the students of X IPA 1 consisting of 24 students. The data was obtained by collecting students’ national examination achievement in Junior High School and conducting pronunciation test. The students were to pronounce the words of the pronunciation test. Their voices were also recorded by using a tape recorder.Then the writer correlated the scores by using Pearson Correlation Formula in SPSS 24 computation.It was found out that the average of the students’ national examination achievement is 51.58 which is considered low, and the average score of students’ pronunciation is 58.57 which is considered low. The value of the correlation coefficient was 0.016 while the critical value of “r” with the 24 subjects was 0.486. The data showed that there is anunsignificant correlation between the students’examination achievement and their mastery of pronunciation.Therefore, it is proved that there is correlation between the students` national examination achievement and their mastery of pronunciation. It could also be identified that the correlation between the variables is fair.

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