The Effect of Communication Apprehension and Communication Competence to Students Speaking Skill Performance (A Case of Maritime High School Students)

Abstract

This paper reports on the effect of communication apprehension and communication competence to students performance in speaking activities. The study attempted to find out the effect happened to students performance in speaking activity due to their communication apprehension and communication competence. The study was conducted in a Maritime High School in Semarang with 50 students of second grade participating for 3 weeks research. The data were collected by fulfilling the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA) and Self-Perceived Communication Scale (SPCS) questionnaires independently. The score obtained from the questionnaires then analyzed using SPSSs Pearson Product Moment to measure the existedcorrelationamong the variables. The result of the study indicated that both communication apprehension and communication competence level affect the students performance in speaking activities with significant correlation.