Abstract:
The aim of the study was to increase students' interest in learning and
applying effective strategies and beneficial for students to improve their
proficiency in the English language in particular to improve speaking ability to the
tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Gombong. It is expected that the result of study
will provide a deeper understanding of the use Firing Line as a Teaching Strategy.
Strategy used by the teacher for teaching and learning process. One of the
aprropiate strategies that can be functioned the students’ speaking ability is Firing
Line.
In this study, experimental research was used to obtain the information
related to the research problems. The samples of this study take one class. The
class is Science X4 as experimental group. The population is 310. The researcher
took 32 students as sample. In this study test is conducted to find out whether
there are significant chances in experimental group after being given firing line
strategy or not. The researcher uses purposive sampling in taking the samples
because the limitation of the time, money and energy. The researcher cannot hold
a longer time to do the research in the school. The spoken test was used to know
students’improvement that was taught by using new strategy.
The result of this study showed that teaching speaking by using Firing
Line strategy can improve the students’speaking ability. Based on the result of
pre-test and post-test, the mean score of the pre-test was 61.81. Meanwhile, the
mean score of post-test was 71.41. It means that there was an improvement on the
students’ speaking ability. In addition, the result of the computation of t-value
(ttest) is 18.19. The computation shows that t-value is lower than t-table that is -
18.19<-0.204. So the hypothesis is accepted. After computing t-test separated
variance, and after knowing that the hypothesis is accepted, the theory meets the
fact in this case. It means that there is significant effective of using Firing Line as
a strategy in teaching speaking at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 1 Gombong.
