The effect of quartet cards game to students’ speaking ability at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Batang Natal

Pulungan, Royhan Malik (2024) The effect of quartet cards game to students’ speaking ability at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Batang Natal. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research purpose was to describe the students’ ability in speaking before and after using quartet cards game and to see the effect of quartet cards game to students speaking ability. This research was applied quantitative research with experimental method. The sample was the students at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 1 Batang Natal, class VIII-3 as the control class that consisted of 20 students and class VIII-4 as the experimental class that consisted of 20. The instrument of this research were tests. The data were analyzed by using statistical analysis to know the significant difference of the students’ achievement both in pre-test and post-test used t-test testing. The result showed before using quartet cards game, the mean score experimental class was 38.80 and it classified into poor category, while the mean score in control class was 39.40 and it classified into poor category. After using quartet cards game, the mean score of experimental class it is higher after using quartet cards game. The mean score of post-test in experimental class was 42 and it was classified into poor category, while the mean score of post-test in control class was 40.40 and it was classified into poor category. The researcher used independent sample t-test with using SPSS 22.0 version to examine the hypothesis. The result found that tcount was higher than ttable. Where tcount was 1.073 and ttable was 1.021 (1.073 > 1.021). It means that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. So, there is a significant effect of quartet card games on students speaking ability at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 1 Batang Natal.

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