Listening is an activity of giving attention in order to get some information of what the speakers are saying. Due to its process, it is called as a receptive skill, in which in this activity people decode the meaning of what they listen to. Listening has an important role to receive the information. Moreover, in this step, human beings receive utterances in un-instantly. What comes after listening skill is speaking. Speaking is the ability to express, convey ideas or feelings verbally. Speaking often becomes the icon of students‟ success in learning language. It is no wonder that some teachers emphasize their students to speak without considering the students‟ readiness. It may difficult for beginners because speaking need language competence in order to produce speech. The objective of this research is to know the correlation between students‟ listening comprehension and their speaking skill at Diploma-1 English Program. The researcher used correlational research design. There were two variable used in this research. The first is variable X (students‟ listening comprehension) and the second is variable Y (students‟ speaking skill). The populations of this research were 40 students of D-1 English Program of Genta English Course. The samples were taken from these populations itself. In collecting data, researcher used instruments of documentation score and speaking test. Then, the data was analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation SPSS 16.0 program. The results of this study have shown that the data was in normal distribution. It was proved that (0.096) > α (0.01). The data was also linear (0.177) > α (0.01). The correlation between the students‟ listening comprehension and speaking skill is positive since the result of the calculation and computation showed that the correlation coefficient (r) between students‟ listening comprehension (X) and speaking skill (Y) is (0.751) > α (0.01). The sig. (2-tailed) is 0.000. It is lower than 0.01. It means the correlation is significant and it has a strong correlation.

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