The effect of turn-taking strategy on students’ speaking ability at the Grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan

Hasibuan, Nur Habibah Nailan (2024) The effect of turn-taking strategy on students’ speaking ability at the Grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research problems are about students’ ability derived from interview to the students and the teacher at grade VIII students’ of MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan The problems of the students were: 1) Having lack of vocabulary, nervous, feeling shy and not confidence to speak. 2) The students use of mother tongue. 3) Lack of practice in communicating and students difficult to speak English. 4) The teacher did not use various techniques in teaching learning process and the teacher did not use speak English. The purposes of this research were: 1) To know the students’ speaking ability before using Turn-Taking strategy at the grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan. 2) To know the students’ speaking ability after using Turn-Taking strategy at the grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan. 3) To know whether there is a significant effect of Turn-Taking strategy on the students’ ability in speaking at the grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan or not. This research used experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post-test design. The population was all of the students at the grade VIII of MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan and the sample was selected by using random sampling. The samples were VIII-1 grade as experimental class consisting of 27 students and VIII-3 grade as control class consisting of 27 students. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test in speaking test and analyzed by using T-test formula. After analyzing the data, it showed that there were different score obtained in pre-test and post-test. The researcher found means score of experimental class before using Turn-Taking strategy was low and means score after learning by using Turn-Taking strategy was high. So, The score of t_count was higher than t_table and Turn-Taking strategy effect to students’ speaking ability. It means (H_a) as hypothesis of this research was accepted and hypothesis null (H_0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was significant effect of Turn-Taking strategy on students’ speaking ability at the grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan.

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