The Effect of Role Play Technique on The Students Speaking Skill at The Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Rantau Selatan

Abstract

Role play is a piece activity exploited by different approaches to language teaching. In role play students must be directed to a particular situation and condition as if they were can make students feel that they really are someone they play. The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of role play technique on speaking skill. Populations in this research were all class XI SMA Negeri 1 Rantau Selatan 2019/2020 academic year that consisted of 9 classes with 324 students in total. The research of sample was taken using a purposive sampling technique with experimental method. The data was taken by pretest and post-test. The average students learning outcomes on pretest showed data, experimental class = 65.69 and control class = 61.94. After being taught using problem-based learning strategy the data showed = 80.55 with a standard deviation = 3.95 while those that did not use problem-based learning strategy = 77.15 with a standard deviation = 4.37. The result of analyzing the data also showed that the score of T-test is higher than t table (2.920 > 1.667) with level α = 0.05. this explains that the class that gets treatment is better than the class that doesn’t get it, and in the teaching process the students were more active and confident to speak English. So, it can be seen that use of role play technique can affected speaking skill at the eleventh-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Rantau Selatan in the academic year 2019/2020.