The influence of students’ grammatical competence toward their english speaking fluency in public speaking program of BCS class at the tenth grade students of MAN 2 Kudus in the academic year of 2018/2019
The research discusses students’ grammatical competence and its influence on their English speaking fluency. The objectives of this research are to identify the students’ grammatical competence in public speaking program of Bilingual Class System (BCS class), to identify the students’ English speaking fluency in public speaking program of BCS class, and to explain whether there are either significant influence between the students’ grammatical competence and their English speaking fluency in public speaking program of BCS class or not. This research used quantitative approach with correlation of product moment and simple linier regression to calculate two variables. The measurement of grammatical competence is multiple choice test of structure, and the measurement of English speaking fluency is interview using the theme given before with 90 respondents of Bilingual Class System (BCS Class) at the tenth grade of Islamic Senior High School 2 Kudus (MAN 2 Kudus) in the academic year of 2018/2019. The result of grammatical competence is “average” in the interval 17-18 with the mean 18.26, and the result of English speaking fluency is “average” in interval 38-30 with the mean 29.42. The quality of students’ grammatical competence on their English speaking fluency gives 79.2%, and another aspects give 20.8%. The researcher has found out that grammatical competence is the important aspect in English speaking fluency, and the researcher suggested that the learners should not ignore the structure because it can connect with another skill of English.