The Effect Of Story Completion Technique To Improve Students’ Speaking Ablity In Descriptive Text At Tenth Grade of SMA N 1 Rantau Utara On Academic Year 2020/2021

Abstract

This study was aimed to test the effect of story completion technique in improvingstudents speaking abilityin descriptive text and overcoming lack of confidence at tenth grade of SMA N 1 Rantau Utara. Researcher used experimental research designs that used pre-test and post-test with quantitative approaches. The researcher took all tenth students as population. The researcher used probability purposive sampling in determining the sample with 36 students from class X IPA 1 as experimental and 36 students from class X IPA 2 as control group. The independent variable is story completion technique and the dependent variable is students' speaking ability in descriptive text. The researcher compared pre-test and posttest results between two groups. Based on the result of the test, the student’s speaking skill had significantly improved from the pre-test to the post-test. The Pretest mean value before using story completion technique at X IPA 1 is 64,167 with standard deviation is 8,849 while the mean value at X IPA 2 using conventional model is 63,222 with standard deviation is 9,744. The Post-test on classroom after using story completion technique at X IPA 1 is 84,889 with standard deviation 7,894 while student who using conventional model at X IPA 2 using conventional model is 79,667 with standard deviation is 6,888. The result of analyzing the data, the score of T-test is higher than T table (2,882 >1,667). It explains that the class gets treatment is better than the class that does not get it.  As a result, the Researcher concluded that there was significant effect of using story completion on students’ speaking ability.