Author (Penulis)

MAY WULANSARY
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0123

Abstract

ABSTRACT May Wulansary : The Effect of Talking Stick to the Students’ Speaking Ability at the Eleventh Grade in SMKN 1 Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015. Thesis, English Department, FKIP UNP Kediri,2015. Key Terms: Talking Stick Method, Speaking Ability, and Teaching Speaking. Speaking is one of important skill in English because the main of most English learners is can communicate orally using English. This thesis investigate speaking is the big problem for students in learning English. They feel hard to share and express their idea to others. In this thesis, the writer chooses Talking Stick as method to make students interested in studying and to improve their speaking ability. This thesis was meant to find out whether or not there is any significant effect of teaching speaking using Talking Stick on the students’ speaking ability at SMKN 1 Kediri. The research conducted here is quantitative. This research is in the area of experiment where the writer uses pre test-post test design. There are two variables, dependent variable, and independent variable. The dependent variable is students’ speaking ability and the independent variable is the Talking Stick method. The subject of the research was the eleventh grade students of SMKN 1 Kediri in Academic year 2014/2015.It consisted of 640 students, but in this research the researcher only took 27 students from XII TITL4 as the sample of the research by using clustering sampling. The result of the research shows that the mean of post-test (65,092) is higher than pre-test (51,944). It means that the students’ score is increasing. Furthermore, the result of the calculation then consulted to the value of t-table in accordance to the degree of freedom (df) 26 and level of significance 5% and the value is 1,706. The result shows that t-test (5,772) is > t-table (1,706). It means that null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In conclusion, Talking Stick is an appropriate method to improve the students’ speaking ability. By used Talking Stick that give the students a big chance to express their opinion. Also, the English teacher should consider using Talking Stick as a method of teaching speaking to make the students interested in studying English.

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PUBLISHED

2015-12-28

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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