The Effect Of Applying Impromptu Speaking Method on The Students’ Speaking Achievement

Abstract

This study deal with the Effect of Impromptu Speaking Method on the Students’ Speaking Achievement. The researcher took this method by expecting that students would be more active in communication and doing great speaking with their teacher and friends in learning English. And also the researcher would like to introduce the new strategy where the students could enjoy in learning English by Impromptu Speaking Method. This study was conducting by using experimental and control class and it took 68 (sixty eight) total students of MTs. Al-Jam’iyatul Washliyah Tembung Medan as the sample. They were divided into two groups, they were 33 students were taken as experimental group and by applying Impromptu Speaking Method, 35 students were taken as control group by applying conventional method – Centre Learning by Teacher. The instrument of this study was making the sentences as many as they could by paying attention the grammar, pronunciation, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. The test was given to the students as the group, the pre-test, Impromptu Speaking Method as an activity and conventional method (TCL) and post-test as well. To know the differences between students’ ability in experimental and control group, it was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the t-test showed that the tobserved was higher than t-table (32.20>2.30). Impromptu Speaking Method gave a significant effect on the students’ speaking achievement. Therefore, a conclusion could be drawn that Impromptu Speaking Method gave a positive effect on the students’ speaking achievement. The students’ achievement taught by using Impromptu Speaking Method was better than taught by using conventional technique (TCL). Impromptu Speaking was one of many activities that was joyful, cheerful and challenging for students in mastering speaking English in classroom.