Speaking is one of productive language skills which involves people’s activeness. When people learn to speak, there are several factors influencing their achievement. One of those factors is attitude. Attitude toward learning influence behaviors such as selecting and reading books, speaking in foreign language There are three components of attitudes: cognitive, emotional, and behavorial. The objectives of this study are to investigate students’ attitude toward learning speaking and students’ speaking achievement as well as to know whether there is correlation between students’ attitude toward learning speaking and speaking achievement. This research uses kendall’s tau-b correlational as the research design. There were two instruments used in obtaining the data. The first was questionnaire distributed to get students’ attitude toward learning speaking constructed by Bonangsri et.al. cited by. Abidin. The second instrument was documentation used to get students’ speaking scores from the lecturer of English for Conversation. While the sample in this study is 95 students of second semester students of English Department of IAIN Kediri. The result showed that the students tanded to have positive attitude, the highest score from the students’ attitude toward learning speaking is 104 and the lowest score is 65. The speaking scores that were obtain from lecturer’s assessment based on the five components of speaking range 71,00-90,00. Furthermore, there was correlation between two variables. However, the coefficient of correlation showed number 0,028 which means the correlation between two variables was very low . Thus it can be concluded that there is no significant correlation between two variables.

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