The Effect of Applying Ground Rules Technique on the Students’ Achievement in Speaking’

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the significant effects of applying Ground Rules technique on the students’ achievement in speaking. The objectives of this study is to find out the significant effects of applying Ground Rules Technique on the students achievement in English speaking skill. This research was an experimental research and the was conducted in SMP NEGERI 42 MEDAN, Seventh Grade during 2016/2017 Academic Years. The population was 212 students and the sample were 60students. Random sampling technique was applied to take the sample. Class VII˗B was chosen by applying Ground Rules Technique and Class VII˗D by using Conventional method.The instrument in collecting the data was oral test: namely by asking the students to represent the information based on the topic that researcher given and asked them one by one while research listen to them by recording. Then the scoreswere classified based on speaking creation, they were vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, comprehension, and grammar. The findings indicated that t˗ observe (9,57) was higher than t˗ table (2,22). The result shows that the hypothesis that there was significant Effect of Applying Ground Rules Technique on the students’ achievement in speaking in junior high school.