Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Keywords: podcast media, speaking skill, teaching speaking. the researcher uses the podcast as an alternative media in teaching speaking because it supports the students in developing speaking skill. the aim is to find out if there is a significant improvement on students’ speaking skill. class xi is 3 was chosen randomly as the sample of this study with total 30 students. the method of this study was quantitative (pre-experimental approach) with one group pre-test and post-test design. the researcher used the oral test as an instrument for both tests (pre-test and post-test) in collecting the data. the data were then calculated by using statistical formulas, and it revealed that the post-test score was higher than the pre-test. the mean score of the pre-test was 58.3 whereas the post-test was 70.5. furthermore, t-test was 8.21 and t-table was 2.045. thus, the t-test is higher than t-table, this proved that the alternative hypothesis (ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (ho) was rejected. the finding of this research shows that there was a significant improvement of the students’ speaking skill performance after enrolling such treatments. thus, podcast media can be used as one of the alternative media in teaching english especially speaking skill in efl classes.