Abstract:
Speaking is the most important skill in using language, because of
language people are able to communicate with other people, join information and
describe a place to someone else.The students havedifficulties in understanding
the meaning of the oral information, not active in studying speaking. The
researcher is aimed to find how effective using humor text to improve speaking
skill for the tenth grade students of SMK Pancasila 1 Kutoarjo in academic year of
2015/2016.
The type of the research is quantitative research. The researcher took one
class as the sample, the subject research is class TOKR C which consists of 30
students. While the instrument that was used in this research, was pre-test and
post-test. In collecting the data, the researcher used pre-test and post-test. Before
conducting post-test, the researcher gave treatment.The researcher then analyzed
the data statistically by using t-test.
The result of computation are the mean of the pretest is 64.13 from the total
score 1924 and the posttest is 72.53 from the total score 2176. It is proved by the
computation that value of Z value is 4.872 andZtable is 1.960. The computation
showed that Zvalue was higher that was (4.872>1.960). It means Ho is rejected
whereas Ha is accepted. Therefore, teaching speaking using humor text in
teaching to tenth grade students’ of SMK Pancasila 1 Kutoarjo in the academic
year of 2015/2016is effective.
