A comparative study between pairwork and groupwork activities to speaking mastery at grade XI students of SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan

Siregar, Dedy Syahputra (2017) A comparative study between pairwork and groupwork activities to speaking mastery at grade XI students of SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the comparative study between pairwork and groupwork activities to speaking mastery at grade XI students of SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. The students problems in this research were : 1) Students feel shy when they are speaking because they do not have a lot of chances to practice English in communication or for interaction in their daily life 2) Students are from rural areas, sometimes they had worse speaking skills than the students are from big cities, 3) Students come from different ethnic groups. The purpose of this research was to know of how significant differences between the ability of the grade XI students of SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan in speaking mastery by using pairwork and groupwork activities. The method was used in this research was experimental research. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were XI – IPA 4 that consisted of 30 students and XI – IPA 5 that consisted of 32 students. It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data was derived from post-test. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of class after using groupwork activities was higher than pairwork activities. Mean score of class by using groupwork activities was 60.6 and mean score of class by using pairwork activities was 55.7. Besides, the score of tcount was higher than ttable (3.062 > 2.000). It meaned that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was a significant differences between the ability of the grade XI students of SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan in mastery speaking by using pairwork and groupwork activities.

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