The Effect of Anxiety and Mental Toughness Toward Bataknese Student’s English-Speaking Ability of Tenth Grade at SMA N 3 Nagasaribu

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to know the Effect of Anxiety and Mental Toughness to The Speaking Ability Grade Ten at Sma Negeri 3 Nagasaribu. This research uses quantitative research to collecting data from observation and test. The data collected in this research are analyzed by using t-test. The researcher use two classes in getting the data,first class X-A as control class and X-B as experimental class. Experimental class is used to find the effect of anxiety and mental toughness with using PBL approach to the students’ speaking ability. The number of samples in this research was 60 students. In answering the problems, the research, the research had analyzed the data to get the result of the effect of anxiety and mental toughness to the students’ speaking ability or not. Then, the researcher got the result in T-test. From the ressult T-test, it shows that by using project-based learning technique more significant to the students’speaking ability.