Leveraging Flashcard through Drilling Technique to Elevate Students’ Speaking Achievement

Abstract

This study aimed to find out the significant effect of using flashcard through drilling technique on the students’ speaking achievement. This research was conducted at Pondok Pesantren Mawaridussalam. In the academic year 2024/2025. This research is quantitative and was conducted using a Quasi Experimental research design. The population of the research consisted of 120 student’s 9th-grade students at Pondok Pesantren Mawaridussalam. The sample consisted of 60 students and was taken by using a random sampling technique. The sample was divided into 2 classes, namely the experimental group, which consisted of 30 students, and the control group consisted of 30 students. The experimental group used flashcard through drilling technique while the control group did not use flashcard through drilling technique. The data was collected by using pre-test, treatment, and post-test, and then was analyzed by using the t-test formula in the SPSS version 26 application. The result showed that the level of significance was 0.000 < 0.50, and the difference between the post-test mean scores of the control and experimental classes was (30.10) and (70.67). In this case, the Ha (alternative hypothesis) was approved, and the H0 (null hypothesis) was disproved. Therefore, the result of this study was that there is a significant effect of using flashcard in learning through drilling technique on the students’ speaking achievement at Pondok Pesantren Mawaridussalam.