The Effect of Applying Socratic Seminar on The Students’ Achievement in Speaking at Eleventh Grade of SMK PAB 2 Helvetia at Academic Years 2016/2017

Abstract

This study deals with The Effect of Applying Socratic Seminar on The Students‟ Achievement in Speaking. The objective of this study was to investigate the significant effect of applying Socratic Seminar on the students‟ achivement in speaking which was focused of asking and giving opinion. The population of this research was the the Eleventh Grade students‟ of SMK PAB 2 Helvetia, academic year 2016/2017. There were five classes with total number 150 students. Two classes was taken as samples. There were 60 students as sample which divided into two classes namely Experimental class ( XI-RPL ) consisted of 30 students and Control class ( XI-RPL 1 ) consist of 30 students. Purposive Sampling was used to determine the experimental and the control group. In The method used in this research was oral tests by using true experimental design typed of pre-test and post-test design. Besides, quantitative approach was applied. In addition, there were pre-test , treatment or teaching and post-test in both of the groups.the students‟ had been given the test which consist one question : the students were asked to write conversation with their partner seat according to the option about asking and giving opinion and then practice in front of the class. Every answer in the test was scored based on component to evaluate speaking.the finding shows that the students who taught by using Socratic Seminar the better score than those who taught by using Discussion Method. Students‟ mean scores of pre-test in the Experimental Group was 70.2 and 84.83 for post-test. Meanwhile, students‟ mean scores of pre-test in Control Goup was 69.27 and 77.03 for the post-test. Thus, the t-test was 8.64 and t-table was 2.00 which was used 0,05 as the significant level of this research. because the t-test value is higher than the t-table (8.64> 2.00), it show that the result in t-test was accepted (Ha). Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that applying Socratic Seminar was significantly more effective to increase in teaching speaking