THE EFFECT OF DIRECT METHOD IN TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS IPA 2 OF SMA DARUSSALAM BLOKAGUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

ABSTRACT
Ulya Syahria (2020): " The Effect of Direct Method in Teaching Speaking
Skill at the Eleventh Grade Students IPA 2 of SMA Darussalam Blokagung
in Academic Year 2019/2020
The English teacher at SMA Darussalam Blokagung Tegalsari subdistrict
Banyuwangi has implemented several strategies to improve students' speaking
skills by giving explanations then asking questions and asking for responses from
students. Sometimes the teacher also uses games and discussion groups, the
teacher has also applied an interesting strategy. But in reality, students also still
have problems with speaking skills. To solve this problem, researchers offer a
method called the direct method.
The main focus in this research is to determine the differences in students'
speaking abilities before and after being taught using the direct method.
In this research, the type is pre-experimental. While the design used is one
group pretest-posttest design. Researchers used one class as a sample of 28
students. The researcher gives a pretest before being taught with the direct method
to determine students 'speaking skills before being taught with the direct method,
and after being taught using the direct method students are given a posttest to find
out the students' speaking abilities after being taught by the direct method.
The technique used to collect data is a test. The test is used to collect the
speaking skills data of eleventh grade students of IPA 2 SMA Darussalam
Blokagung. Techniques in analyzing data using the T formula, it is to find out the
difference in the mean pretest and posttest scores of students with the help of
SPSS version 23. Then the value is compared with the T-table by considering df.
Based on data analysis, the researcher found a difference in students'
speaking abilities before and after being taught by the direct method with
consideration to greater than the ttable of either 5% or 1%. This means that Ha is
accepted and Ho is rejected. So it can be concluded that there is a difference
between students' speaking skill before and after being taught by the direct
method.