Abstract:
This study deals analyzing aimed to find out the Improving Students’ Speaking
Achievement through Small Group Discussion Method. This subject of this research
was eight grade students SMP Swasta Islamiyah Belawan, in academic year 2018/2019.
It consisted of one class with 38 students as respondents. The objectives of this research
to find out the process of learning speaking with Small Group Discussion Method. To
find out improvement on the students’ speaking ability by using Small Group
Discussion. This research was conducted by using classroom action research. The
technique of analyzing data was applied in this research were qualitative and
quantitative. The qualitative data were taken from observation sheet, interview and
documentation. The quantitative data were taken from tests. The tests were given to
the students in the form of pre-test, post-test I and post-test II. The result of data
analysis showed that there was an improvement on the students’ speaking ability
from each cycle. It was showed from the mean of pre-test was 63,94, after improving
students’ achievement of small group discussion strategy was applied, there was
improvement of the result of the students‘ mean which was 73.86 and for the second
cycle after reflection on the first cycle there was an improvement of the students‘
mean which was 82.73. Moreover in the pre-test, there were 47.36% (18 students of
38 students) who got score ≥ 70. In the post-test I, there were 60,52% (23 students of
38 students) who got score ≥ 70. In the post-test II, there were 100% (38 students of
38 students) who got score ≥ 70. So, the total percentage of the improvement from
pre-test to post-test II was about 60%.