The effect of using talking stick strategy on speaking mastery at the XI Grade Students of SMA N 1 Padang Bolak Julu

Harahap, Rapika Andriani (2022) The effect of using talking stick strategy on speaking mastery at the XI Grade Students of SMA N 1 Padang Bolak Julu. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study intended to investigate the effect of using talking stick strategy on speaking mastery at the XI grade students of SMA N 1 Padang Bolak Julu. The problems faced by students in speaking were: 1) Students were lack of vocabulary and motivation when speaking learning activity was on going, 2) Students were confuse how to pronounce the vocabulary and grammar correctly. 3) Students were shy and also not confidence to speak. This study had three formulations of the problem, they were; how is students’ speaking mastery before learning using Talking Stick strategy? how is students’ speaking mastery after learning using Talking Stick strategy? Is there any significant effect of using Talking Stick strategy on Speaking Mastery at the grade XI students of SMA N 1 Padang Bolak Julu?. The purposes of this study were to describe the students’ mastery in speaking English before learning using Talking Stick strategy, to describe the students’ mastery in speaking English after learning using Talking Stick strategy and to examine whether there was significant effect of using Talking Stick strategy on Speaking Mastery at the grade XI students of SMA N 1 Padang Bolak Julu. This study used experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post-test design. The population was all of the students at the eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Padang Bolak Julu. The samples were XI IPA 3 grade as experimental class consisting of 13 students and XI IPS 1 grade as control class consisting of 14 students. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test in speaking test and analyzed by using T-test formula. The result of this study showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher than the mean score of control class after learning by using Talking Stick strategy. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 38.23 and the mean score of control class in pre-test was 34.5. Moreover, the mean score of experimental class in post-test was 49.23 and the mean score of control class in post-test was 37.78. In addition, after doing T-test, this study found that tcount > ttable (9.78>2.060). Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study was accepted, null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was effect of Using Talking Stick strategy on speaking mastery at the grade XI students of SMA N 1 Padang Bolak Julu.

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