Research of English in SMA Negeri 1 Jepara 2011/2012 (Speaking)

The Speaking ability of The Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 1 Jepara in The Academic Year 2011/ 2012 taught by Using British Parliamentary Debate Technique.

Based on KTSP SMA N 1 Jepara, students are expected to reach the informational level of literacy in order to receive knowledge by using language competence. Speaking skill is an important skill to be mastered by the students in order to develop the communicative competence of the students to face the globalization. However, many students get difficulties in learning speaking. It is proved by the difficulties in delivering ideas, opinions or giving responds to the teacher questions about something or a topic. British Parliamentary Debate Technique is an alternative technique for teaching speaking ability. It is characterized as an active teaching technique which involves students actively in teaching and learning process and increase the motivation to study. The writer applies British Parliamentary Debate Technique for teaching the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Jepara in the academic year 2011/2012 to develop the speaking ability since they still have difficulties in speaking.

The objective of this research is to test the significance of the difference between the Speaking Ability of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Jepara in the AcademicYear 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using British Parliamentary Debate Technique.

The writer holds an experimental research with thepretest-posttest without control group design of the research. The subject of this research was the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Jepara in the academic year 2011/2012. The writer takesXI Language Program as the subject. Cluster random sampling is the sampling technique that is used. The hypothesis states that there is asignificant difference between the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Jepara in the academic year 2011/2012before and after being taught by using British Parliamentary Debate Technique..

The result of the research shows that there is a significant difference in the speaking ability after being taught by using British Parliamentary Debate Technique. The mean scoreof the students after being taught by using British Parliamentary Debate is 74.32 and standard deviation is6.62 which iscategorized “good”. Then the mean score of the students before being taught by using British Parliamentary Debate is67.04 and standard deviation is7.20 which is categorized “sufficient”. The t-observation (to) is6.312. It is higher than t-table (tt) 2.0796 in the level of significance 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) 21, (to = 6.312>tt = 2.0796). Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this research that states there is asignificant difference between the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Jepara in the academic year 2011/2012before and after taught by using British Parliamentary Debate Technique is “confirmed”. While, the Null Hypothesis (Ho) that states there is no significant differencebetween the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Jepara in the academic year 2011/2012 before and after taught by using British Parliamentary Debate Techniqueis “rejected”.

The result of this research shows that British Parliamentary Debate Technique can develop the speaking ability of the students. Therefore, English teachersare able to apply British Parliamentary Debate Technique as an alternative technique of teaching speaking in order to help the students to develop their speaking ability and develop their communicative competence.

Syukur, Ahmad. 2012. The Speaking ability of The Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 1 Jepara in The Academic Year 2011/ 2012 taught by Using British Parliamentary Debate Technique. Skripsi. Departement of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muria Kudus. Advisors (i) Dra. Hj. Sri EndangKusmaryati, M.Pd. (ii) AgungDwiNurcahyo, S.S,  M.Pd

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