The Effectiveness of Using News Item Text By VOA to Students Ability in Speaking at SMK PAB 3 Medan

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out the effectiveness of using news item text by voa to students ability in speaking. This resaerch has been conducted at SMK PAB 3 Medan, Jl. Masjid Medan Estate. It was applied by using experimental research. The population of this research were the tenth grade in academic year 2019/2020 which consisted of two classess that X- AK and X- AP were consist 48 students, and only one class were taken as the sample that is class X- AK were consist 24 students. This research was applied purposive sampling. This research used experimental research design namely One group pre-test and post-test. The instrument for collecting data in this research was speaking. Which was use pre-test and post-test. The test was divided in two sessions, the first was pre-test before treatment. The second was post-test after the treatment. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the data showed that tobserve (6.8) value was higher than the ttable in which tobserve>ttable (65> 95000) . It means that there was a significant effectiveness of using news item text by VOA to students ability in speaking