ABSTRACT

The Effect of Snowball Throwing Technique in Improving Students’ Speaking Skill at the Second Year Students of MAN 1 Kendari

AHMAD GENI SAPUTRA
(A1D2 14 162)

The purpose of conducting this research was to examine the effect of snowball throwing technique in improving students’ speaking skill at the second year students of MAN 1 Kendari. The population of this research was the second grade science program (XI IPA) students of MAN 1 Kendari which consist of four classes while the subject of this research was the second grade science program three (XI IPA 3) which consist of 30 students. This research was conducted in pre-experimental research design. The data of this research were collected by giving pre-test and post-test to students. The data was analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 version (descriptive analysis and inferential statistics). Descriptive analysis was used to describe the maximum scores, minimum scores, mean score and standard deviation while the inferential statistic was used to examine the hypothesis. The result showed that there was an improvement of the students’ speaking skill. It can be seen from the mean score of post-test was 62.32, while the mean score of pre-test was 39.32. In order to prove the hypothesis, the researcher took the conclusion by comparing between the value of Sig (2 tailed) with the significance α value. It showed that the value of Sig (2 tailed) was 0.000 while the significance α value was 0.05. So, it can be concluded that the value of Sig (2 tailed) was lower than the significance α value (0.000 < 0.05). In other words, alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It means that the snowball throwing technique can improve students’ speaking skill at the second year students of MAN 1 Kendari.

Keywords: Snowball Throwing Technique, Speaking Skill