THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PAIR WORK TECHNIQUE IN DIALOGUE TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENT OF SMK NEGERI 8 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012 /2013

Abstract

This final project is experimental research. 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 SMK Negeri 8 Purworejo. It is expected that the result of the study will provide a deeper understanding of the use pair work technique as a teaching. Technique used by the teachers in teaching and learning process. One of the appropriate technique that can be functioned to improve the students’ speaking ability is pair work technique. In this study, experimental research was used to obtain the information related to the research problems. The samples of this study are two classes. The first class is Busana as the experimental group and the second classes Tsm A as an control group. Both of classes consist of 33 students. In this study test is conducted to find out whether there are significant chances in experimental group after being given pair work because participants have similar chance to be chosen. The spoken test was used to know students’ improvement that. The researcher tested the students’ speaking achievement by giving pre-test and post-test. In collecting the data, the researcher used test as the instrument. This research is a quantitative research, so it needs a data analysis. This analysis is related to the computation in answering the problem statement and hypothesis testing presented. The statistics used in this research is the t-test. The result of this study showed that teaching speaking by using Pair Work can improve the students’ speaking ability. Based on the result of post-test control group and experimental group, the mean score of the post-test control group was 63. Meanwhile, the mean score of post-test experimental group was 72. It means that there was an improvement on the students’ speaking ability after giving treatment. In addition, the result of the computation of t-value (t-test) is 6.290. The computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table that is 2.042. So the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It means using pair work is effective in improving speaking ability.