Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name : rahmiati student no. : 1309200080056 department/ program : english education/ postgraduate title : the use of sociodrama technique to enhance students’ speaking ability (an experimental study to the 8 grade students at mts swasta yapena arun) advisors: (1) dr. bukhari daud, m.ed. (2) dr. iskandar as, s.pd, m.a keywords: english language teaching, sociodrama strategy, speaking skills, efl students. this research is an experiment of using sociodrama technique in teaching speaking. the objective of the study was to investigate whether there is a significant difference in speaking toward comprehensibility and fluency scores between students who are treated by means of sociodrama and those who are not. the method used in this study was experimental research design with the level of significance ?=0.05. the samples of this study were 70 students of the 8 grade at mts swasta yapena arun, lhokseumawe, aceh, indonesia. these students were grouped into the experimental group and the control group, each of which consisted of 35 students. the instrument used was a set of test, which was administrated in the form of pre-test and post-test. the data were analyzed by using spss 20 which is the statistical package for social sciences. basically, the data were considered normal and homogenous. from the t-test, it was obtained that the critical area is higher than 2.00. the t count value from the post-test between the experimental and control groups is 2.54, which certainly lies within the critical area. in conclusion, the sociodrama technique has raised students’ speaking ability in comprehensibility and fluency. v