THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DISCUSSION METHOD TO TEACH SPEAKING AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MADRASAH ALIYAH NEGERI KUTOWINANGUN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013 / 2014

Abstract

is used to communicate one another. There are many speaking activities that can be applied to improve speaking ability, such as: discussion, debate, drama, role play, etc. The purpose of this research is to describe the level of students’ speaking ability after being taught by discussion and to find out whether using discussion is effective or not for teaching speaking. In this research, the researcher has a question to be answered. The question is “Is Discussion Method Effective to Teach Speaking at the Eleventh Grade Students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Kutowinagun in the Academic Year 2013 / 2014. In this research, the researcher took 32 students as the sample that is XI.IPA.2. The researcher got the data using individual speaking test and speaking through discussion. Then the researcher calculates the test result by using manually and SPSS version 16.00. After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that teaching speaking using discussion is effective. As the fact, the result of t-value is 19.75. According to the 0.05 significance level, the value of ttable was 1.696. The computation showed that t-value was higher than t-table, which was 19.75 > 1.696. The effectiveness of discussion method also can be seen from score gained on pre test and post test. The mean score of pre test was 49.37, it belonged to fairly sufficient category and the score on post test after getting treatment was 73.25, it belonged to Good category. It can be concluded the score after getting treatment was higher than before. According to the result of t-test findings, it can be reference for teacher to use discussion method to teach speaking to get higher students’ speaking achievement. Therefore, it can be stated that the hypothesis “the use of discussion method to teach speaking at the eleventh grade of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Kutowinangun in the academic year 2013 / 2014 is effective” is accepted.