ABSTRACT Aji, Muhammad Alfiyan P. 2020. The correlation between Arabic pronunciation skill and English pronunciation skill of the students of MTs. Al Amien. Thesis. Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Education. State Islamic Institute of Kediri (IAIN Kediri). Advisors: (I) Dr. Toyyibah, SS. M.Pd, (II) Dr. Ary Setya Budhi Ningrum M.Pd. Keywords: Arabic, English, Pronunciation The research is motivated to prove that the bilingual program of school can improve students ability in English pronuncition skill. This study tried to determine the correlation between Arabic pronunciation skill and English pronunciation skill of the students. 30 respondents of second year student in MTs. Al Amien Kediri are taken as the samples of the study. All of the respondents are further being given a test on pronunciation abilitty. The results of scores are analyzed using kendall’s tau analysis. Results of the analysis found that Arabic pronunciation skill have positive and significant influence on English pronunuciation skill. Hypothesis testing using correlation tests showed that Arabic pronunciation skill found to significantly affect students’ English pronunciation skill. Then through the kendall’s tau correlation statistic test showed that the value of sig. (2 tailed) between Arabic pronunciation skill and English pronunciation skill are 0,000 < 0,05 and Zcount : 6,915 > Ztable: 1,96, while the correlation coefficient between the two variables is 0,655, in range 0,6 – 0,75 which means that the two variables have high positive correlation, It can be concluded that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) that there is positive correlation between Arabic pronunciation skill and English pronunciation skill of the students is accepted and null hypothesis (H0) that there is no correlation between Arabic pronunciation skill and English pronunciation skill of the students can be rejected.

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