The Effectiveness of Humor Text in Teaching to Tenth Grade Students’ of SMK Pancasila 1 Kutoarjo in the Academic Year of 2015/2016.Thesis

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.