Electronic Theses and Dissertation

V abstract name : yuni ardini nizar student no. : 0906102020014 study program : english education title : enhancing student’s speaking competence by applying mingle activity (an experimental study at second grade smpn 1 banda aceh) keywords: students’ speaking competence, mingle activity. this study was conducted to verify if mingle activity could enhance the students’ speaking competence in term of pronounciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension at the second grade of smpn 1 banda aceh 2016/ 2017. the method of this study was quantitative with experimental study. the subject of this study was 28 students from the second grade students class viii-1. to achieve the goal of this study, the writer conducted the study for five meetings. from the result of the test, the writer found that the mean score of pre-test was 69.7 and post-test was 83.7. from the results, the highest percentage in this study was fluency in 23.7%. then followed by grammar with 23.4%. the third was vocabulary with 20.3% . the forth was pronunciation in 18.3%. the fifth, it was comprehension in 14.3%. finally, from analyzing t-test formula, the writer found that t value>ttable with the value of 19.18>1.70329. it proved that the alternative hypothesis (h a) of this study is accepted and the null hypothesis (h 0 ) is rejected.