THE EFFECT OF APPLYING STUDENT-CENTRED APPROACH ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT ON SPEAKING

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.