Abstract:
This research dealt with the effect of applying student-centred approach on
the students‟ achievement in speaking. The objective of this research was to
investigate the significant effect of applying student-centred approach on the
students‟ achievement in speaking. This was pre-experimental research which
applied one-group pre-test and post-test. The population of the research was the
seven grade students at SMP An-Nadwa Islamic Centre Binjai in 2016/2017
academic year, which consist of 40 students. By using random sampling technique
from all the population consist of class VII-A and VII-B, the researcher taken
class VII-A as the sample of experimental class with consist of 20 students. This
class was taught by using student-centred approach. The data were gathered by
administrating an oral test given in pre-test and post-test using the teacher made
test. After analyzing the data, the findings showed that the value of
with df=n-2 (20-2=18) and
t
table
2
.
048
.
If
t
observe
t
table
t
observe
3
.
879
the alternative
hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the result of this research was 3.879>2.048
t
observe
t
table
. Therefore the hypothesis was accepted. The result showed that the
students‟ achievement in speaking by using Student-Centred Approach was more
significant than before using this strategy.
