INCREASING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH GROUP WORK

Desi Zauhana Arifin, Huzairin Huzairin, Muhammad Sukirlan

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah diajar menggunakan group work. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif yang menggunakan disain one group pretest postest. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas dua SMA. Data dianalisa menggunakan formula t-test. Nilai rata rata pada pre test adalah 52.4 dan post test adalah 69,1 atau meningkat sekitar 16,7. Itu terbukti bahwa nilai siswa meningkat dengan signifikan karena t-ratio lebih tinggi daripada t table 28.502> 2.0423), p<0.05 (p=0.000). Bisa disimpulkan bahwa tehnik ini efektif untuk pengajaran kemampuan berbicara.

The objective of the research is to find out whether there is increase of students’ speaking ability after being taught through group work. The type of the research was quantitative which has one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this research was the second year students of SMA. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The mean score of pre-test was 52.4 and post-test was 67.9  or increased about 16.7. It proved that the students’ scores increase significantly because t-ratio is higher than t-table (28.502> 2.0423), p<0.05 (p=0.000). It can be concluded that this technique was effective for teaching speaking ability.

Keywords: effective, group work, increase, speaking ability, teaching speaking


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