The Effectiveness of Using Team Game Tournament (TGT) in Teaching Speaking of Hortatory Exposition Text at Second Grade Students of SMA 9 Purworejo Academic Year 2014/2015

Abstract

The undertaking of the present experiment research was mainly intended to figure out whether or not team game tournament technique can improve the subjects’ speaking skill. The subject of the present study was the second grade students of SMA N 9 Purworejo in academic year 2014/2015 that consisted of 2 classes. In this study, the writer took quantitative method. It means the writer made experimental of teaching speaking by using team game tournament technique (experiment class in XI MIA I), and without using team game tournament technique (control class in XI MIA II), then the writer gave them speaking test (pre test and post test). The writer used purposive sampling technique to choose experiment class and control class. The result shows that the mean of pretest of experiment class was 61.80 and the result of posttest was 77.80; while the mean of pretest of control class was 53.00 and the result of posttest was 73.00. It means students’ achievement in experiment class is better than students’ achievement in control class. The result of t-value analysis is 3.76, and the result of t-table analysis is 2.086. It means that t-value is higher than t-table, which is 3.76 < 2.086. So, Ha is accepted. According to the result, the writer concluded that using team game tournament in teaching of hortatory exposition text at second grade students’ of SMA N 9 Purworejo in academic year 2014/2015 is effective. The process of teaching and learning is well enough in the approach. Based on the result of the research, it is suggested for teacher to continue teaching by using team game tournament technique in teaching speaking, for students to always try to improve their speaking skill, for school to support the facility to get the goal of teaching learning activity, and for the other researcher, it is recommended to implement team game tournament technique in teaching other types of text.