Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name : mieta setieya student no. : 0906102020036 study program : english education title : improving students’ speaking ability by using talking stick technique (an experimental research at second year students of smp negeri 18 banda aceh) keyword: speaking ability, talking stick technique this study aims at examining whether the use of talking stick technique solve students’ problems in teaching speaking which is focused on expressing speech act. quantitative approach with experimental study of one group pretest-posttest design was undertaken to overcome the problems faced by students. the data obtained from oral test involving 25 second year students showed the score improvements of the mean of pre-test 50 to 82 on post-test. the t-score value is higher than the value of t-table (t = 5.11> . it means that the difference was significant, so the alternative hypothesis (ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (ho) was rejected. indeed, talking stick technique can be one of alternative techniques used by the teacher in teaching english particularly teaching speaking in efl class.