The Effect of Impromptu Speech Technique to Speaking Ability at Grade IX Students of SMP N 3 Padangsidimpuan

Abstract

This study intended to investigate the effect of Impromptu Speech Technique to speaking ability at grade IX students of SMP N 3 Padangsidimpuan. The purposes of this study were to examine students’ speaking ability before using Impromptu Speech Technique, to examine students’s speaking ability after using Impromptu Speech Technique and to examine whether there is significant effect of Impromptu Speech Technique to students ‘speaking ability at the grade IX students of SMP N 3 Padangsidimpuan. This study used experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post- test control group design. The population was all of the students at the IX of SMP N 3 Padangsidimpuan. The samples were IX-3 grade as experimental class consisted of 31 students and IX-5 grade as control class consisted of 31 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 Impromptu Speech Technique. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 29.83 and the mean score of control class in pre-test was 29.19. Moreover, the mean score of experimental class in post-test was 64.68 and the mean score of control class in post-test was 36.77. In addition, after doing T-test, this study found that t_count > t_table (10. 542> 2.00030). Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study was accepted, null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was a significant effect of Impromptu Speech Technique to speaking ability at grade IX students of SMP N 3 Padangsidimpuan.