The Effect of Applying Inside-Outside Circle Strategy on the Students’ Speaking Achievement at 8th grade osf SMP Swasta Brigjend Katamso II at academic 2016/2017

Abstract

This research aims to find out the significant effect of applying Inside-Outside Circle strategy on the students‟ speaking achievement. The sample of this research was 8 th grade of SMP Swasta Brigjend Katamso II at academic 2016/2017. It consisted of 80 students. The method used experimental research which devided into two groups namely experimental and control group. The instrument of this research was oral test. Based on the oral test, the mean score of pre-test in experimental group was 57.75 and the mean score of post-test in experimental group was 84.62. Meanwhile, the mean score of pre-test in control group was 59.12 and the mean score of post-test in control group was 69.65. Therefore, the result of T-test in this research was 24.42 and the T-table was 2,00 which used level significance 0.05 with df = n-1 (80-1). Because t-test was higher than t-table (24.42 > 2.00), it means that T-test > T-table. So the result of this research was accepted (Ha). It is concluded that Applying Inside-Outside Circle Strategy significant affect the students‟ achievement in speaking skill.