Author (Penulis)

AYU WIDYAWATI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0095

Abstract

ABSTRACT The student difficulties in speaking might be caused by some factors. The factors are environment, pronunciation, grammar and limited vocabulary. The environment does not support the students to speak English frequently. The objectives of this research were to find out (1) the students speaking ability before and after being taught using story completion and, (2) the effect story completing technique is effective to teach speaking at English conversation class of 11th grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Kediri 2016/2017. The research conducted here is quantitative. This research is in the area of experiment where the researcher used pre-test and post-test. There are two variables, dependent and independent variable. The dependent variable is students’ speaking ability and the independent variable is story completion technique. The subject of the research was the eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Kediri in academic years 2016/2017. By using clustering sampling, the researcher uses the 22 students of IX IPA. The result shown that the mean of post-test (52) is higher than pre-test (41.4545). the It means that the student score is increasing. the result of the t-test is (9.566). Furthermore, the result of the calculation then consulted to the value of t-table in accordance to the degree of freedom (dt) 21 and level of significant 5% and the value is 2,074. The result shown that t-test (9.566) is > t-table (2.074). It means that null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Based on the research finding and discussion, it can be concluded that story completion technique is effective to improve the students speaking ability at 11th grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah in academic years 2016/2017. KEY WORDS: speaking, teaching speaking, story completion technique.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-08

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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