The Effect Of Using Story Books Application On The Students’ Speaking Achievement

Abstract

This study deal with the effect of Story books application to Students‟ Speaking Achievement. The researcher took this strategy by expecting the student was active to make a connect communication and real conversation each other and closer with their teacher in learning English. The effect of this study found the significant effect on the students‟ achievement taught by using story books application . This study was conducting by using experimental design with two groups. They were experimental and control group. In this case, the researcher took 57 students of SMP Muhammadiyah 08 Medan as the sample. They were divided into two groups, 29 were taken as experimental group, 28 students were taken as control group. The instrument of this study was essay test and retelling the story which consisted of the story on the application of smartphone. The test was given to the students as the group, the pre-test, treatment and the post-test. 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 (52.98>1.67). It means that Story books application gave a significant effect on students‟ speaking achievement. Therefore, a conclusion could be drawn that story books application gave a positive effect on the students‟ speaking achievement. It meant that the students‟ achievement taught by using story books application was higher than taught by using conventional methode in speaking. Teacher needed to follow the era by using technology and combination with the culture right now.