The effect of natural approach on students’ speaking ability at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur Tapanuli Selatan

Nursyamsiah, Nursyamsiah (2023) The effect of natural approach on students’ speaking ability at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur Tapanuli Selatan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the effect of natural approach on students’ speaking ability at grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur Tapanuli Selatan. The problems that faced by students‘speaking ability were: 1) most of students does not speaking English well, they take so much time thinking what they are going to say, 2) most of students does not mastery enough vocabulary, when they want to speak they are did not know what they want to say, 3) most of students don’t response English well. The research has three formulations of the problem, they are: How is students’ speaking ability before learning using Natural Approach at the grade VIII of SMP Negeri 1 AngkolaTimur? How is students’ speaking ability after learning using Natural Approach at grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 AngkolaTimur? Is there any significant effect of using Natural Approach towards of student’s speaking ability at grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 AngkolaTimur?. The purposes of this research were to know the information about the students‘ speaking ability before using Natural Approach, to know the information about the students‘ speaking ability after using Natural Approach and to examine whether there is significant effect of Natural Approach on students‘ Speaking Ability at grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur Tapanuli Selatan. This research used experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post-test design. The population were all of the students at grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur Tapanuli Selatan. The sample were VIII 1 as experimental class that consisted of 30 students and VIII 2 as control class that consisted of 30 students. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test in orall test form and analyzed by using ttest formula. The result of research showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher than the mean score of control class after using Natural Approach. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 65.00 and the mean score of control class in pre-test was 61.17. Meanwhile, the mean score of experimental class in post-test was 74.00 and the mean score of control class in post-test was 73.97. In addition, after doing T-test, the researcher found that the post test in experimental class was tcount > ttable (4.500>2.00172). Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this research was accepted and null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was significant effect of Natural Approach on Students Speaking Ability at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur Tapanuli Selatan.

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