INCREASING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH PROBLEM SOLVING

Reza Fandana, Hery Yufrizal, Rosita Simbolon

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari tahu apakah ada perbedaan yg signifikan dari kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah diajar menggunakan problem solving dan untuk mengetahui topik yang paling efektif untuk mengajar berbicara. Sampel penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas sepuluh (X1). Penelitian ini menggunakan times series designsembilan pertemuan. Untuk mengumpulkan data tes berbicara menggunakan penampilan berbicara. Untuk memberi penilaian terdapat dua penilai. hasil perlakuan pertama  26.187 (t-value), perlakuan dua 22.079 (t-value) , perlakuan tiga 43.847 (t-value) > 2. 048 (t-table) berarti terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan pada kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah menggunakan problem solving. Oleh karena itu perkiraan pertama diterima.  Lebih dari itu, rata rata berbicara nilai pada topik friend adalah 66.86 dan meningkatkan pada 67.66 di topik family dan dan topik terakhir adalah 68.18 di topik holiday. Maka, topik family adalah topik yang paling efektif.

There are two main objectives of this research (1) To find out whether there is any significant different of students’ speaking ability after being taught through problem solving (2) To know most effective topic for teaching speaking. The sample was students of tenth grade ( X1). The study employed times series design nine times. There were two raters to score students’ speaking performance. The result is 1st treatment  26.187 (t-value),  2nd   treatment 22.079 (t-value) , 3rd   treatment 43.847 (t-value) > 2. 048 (t-table) means that there are significant differences of students’ speaking ability after being taught through problem solving.  Therefore, the first hypothesis is accepted. Moreover, the result of mean score for friend topic is 66.86 and is up to 67.66 in family topic and then the last topic is up 68.18 (gain of 0.52) in holiday topic. So, the most effective topic is family.

Keywords : increasing, problem solving, speaking.

 


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