UNLOCKING THE POWER OF ATTITUDE, MOTIVATION, AND EFI SPEAKING PERFORMANCE AMONG GRADE 11 STUDENTS IN ADDIS ABABA CITY, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

This study used the Pearson-product moment to examine the relationship between motivation, attitude, and speaking performance of EFL students of Addis Ababa City. In this regard, 87 Ethiopian grade 11 students were the sample of the population. Gardner's (1985) adaptation of the Attitude Motivation Test Battery served for the development of motivation and attitude surveys. Quantitative data were gathered via close-ended questionnaires of students’ attitude and motivation. Data were also acquired utilizing speaking tests. These data were analyzed using SPSS version24. The finding of this study showed that motivation, attitude and speaking performance have a significant relationship. Moreover, the ANOVA analysis revealed that there were statistically significant relationship among students’ attitude, motivation and speaking performance. The correlation coefficient between speaking performance and attitude was found to be 0.828, with a P- value was less than 0.05. The outcome also showed that speaking performance and motivations had a relationship, with a correlation coefficient of 0.449 and a P-value was also less than 0.05. The results of multiple regression analysis revealed that from these variables of the study attitude was the stronger predictor of the speaking performance. Therefore, the results indicated that the null hypotheses (H0) were rejected and alternative hypotheses (H1) were accepted.