Author (Penulis)

Mia Rohana
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

10.1.01.08.0162

Abstract

Mia Rohana, 10.1.01.08.0162, 2014: The Effect of Discussion Technique to the Second Grade Student’s Speaking Ability of SMAN 3 Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015. Thesis, English Department, the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri 2014. Speaking is an important tool that can be used to communicate a language in a society. In teaching and learning English there are some factors that must be taken by the teacher as the main person who teaches the English materials for their students. There for she has to be familiar with the kind of methods used in teaching process. Discussion technique is a technique in which students work in group. Discussion technique can be used in a variety of ways for variety goals, but it is primarily used for the acquisition and presentation of a new material, review, or informed debate. The purpose is to know the students’ speaking ability before and after being taught using Discussion Technique and to find whether there is any influence of Discussion technique on the students’ speaking ability of Second Grade students of SMAN 3 Kediri in academic year 2014/2015. It uses an experimental method and quantitative approach to do the research. This is consist of two variables, they are using discussion technique as independent variable and students’ speaking ability as dependent variable. The writer took one class as sample of the research which consisting of 32 students with 20 females and 12 males. The instrument that is used to get the data is test. There are two kinds of test, they are pre-test that is given to the student before they are taught using discussion technique and post-test that is given after they are taught using discussion technique. In addition, the result shows that the total score that was gotten by the students is increasing after they were being taught by using Discussion technique in which the total of post-test score (1977) is higher than score of pre-test (1658). Furthermore, discussion technique gives significant effect to the students’ speaking ability of SMAN 3 Kediri. It is caused that t-score (15,245) is higher than t-table (2,042) at the level significance of 5%. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Finally, the writer concludes that using discussion technique gave a better result on the students’ speaking ability. Thus, the writer suggests that the English teacher should use discussion technique to teach speaking which can make the students more interesting in teaching and learning process. So, the students can practice English in their daily activity as can as possible. Key words: Discussion Technique, Speaking Ability.

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PUBLISHED

2016-08-17

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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