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
