The Effect Of Applying Call Method By Using Speectron On The Students’ Achievement In Pronouncing Ed Ending Of The Regular Verb

Abstract

This research was carried out to 1) find out the effect of applying Call Method by using Speechtron on the students’ achievement in pronouncing ed Ending of the regular verb. 2) figure out the effect of applying Call Method by using SpeechTRON software as a medium in teaching pronunciation ed Ending of regular verb in the Recount Text in the eight grade of SMP Yp. Bina Satria Medan Marelan. This research has been conducted at SMP Yp.Bina Satria Medan Marelan academic year 2018/2019. There were three classes in this school with total number 120 students and I took random sampling that was 30 of the students were taken as the sample. They were 30 students from class VIII-1, VIII-2, and VIII-3. Each groups of consist 15 as experimental group which taught by applying Call Method by using SpeechTron and as control group which taught by Powerpoint. The Instrument for collecting data in this research was oral test where students were asked to pronounce words of ed ending regular verb which use pretest and post-test. The material of test was taken from Internet (English Pronunciation) for grade VIII junior high school. The test was divided into sections, the first was pre-test before treatment. The second was post-test after treatment. The result of this research showed that t-observed value was higher than t-table in which > (7.65 > 2.14). the hypothesis was accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of applying Call Method by using Speechtron on the students’ achievement in pronouncing ed ending of the regular verb.