A strip story is one of the techniques that could stimulate the students to speak during the learning process especially in speaking class. The aim of this study was to find out the significance difference of students' speaking achievement after they were taught by using strip story technique. The pre experimental study was the method of the study. The one group pretest-posttest design approach was used in this study. The study was conducted to sixth semester S1 Nursing students at STIK Siti Khadijah Palembang. The population of the study was all fourth semester S1 Nursing students at STIK Siti Khadijah Palembang in 2018. The total number of the population was 69 students. The sample of the study was 22 fourth semester S1 Nursing students at STIK Siti Khadijah Palembang in 2018. Systematic sampling was used to collect the sample. The test was administered twice as pre-test and post-test. The results of the tests were analyzed by using t-test through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program. The result of the study showed that there was a significant difference in speaking achievement before and after applying strip story technique based on paired sample t-test. AbstrakStrip story adalah sebuah teknik yang dapat merangsang pelajar untuk berbicara selama proses pembelajaran khususnya dalam kelas Speaking. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari perbedaan yang signifikan dalam pencapaian kemampuan berbiacra setelah mereka diajarkan menggunakan teknik strip story. Preeksperimental adalah metode dalam penelitian ini. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah one-group pre-test post-test. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap mahasiswa semester 6 program studi S1 Keperawatan diSTIK Siti Khadijah Palembang pada tahun 2018. Jumlah populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah 69 mahasiswa. Sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 22 mahasiswa semester empat program studi S1 Keperawatan STIK Siti Khadijah Palembang tahun 2018. Teknik pengambilan sampel meggunakan teknik sistematik. Tes diberikan dua kali berupa pre-test dan post-test. hasil penelitian Abdul Aziz Rifa'at Stimulating You To Speak; A Strip Story As A Technique Volume 05 Number 01, June 2018 13 dianalisa menggunakan t-test dengan program SPSS. Hasil dari tes menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dalam pencapaian kemampuan berbicara sebelum dan sesudah diterapkan strip story berdasarkan paired sample t-test. Kata Kunci: percakapan, cerita acak A. IntroductionThere are many ways to communicate and one of them through speaking. Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving, and processing information (Brown, 1994). Speaking is the tool for communication between two or more people. People need to speak to deliver the information to the listener.Among the four skills in English, Speaking seems to be the most important skill to be learned. Sarosdy, Bencze, Poor and Vadnay (2006) state that of all the four simplex skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) speaking seems to be the most important as peop...

The objective of this study was to find out the significant difference of the students in writing achievement before and after using Story Circle technique. The second objective was to find out the improvement of the students in writing achievement before and after Story Circle technique. The pre-experimental method through one group pre test-post test design was used in this study. The population and sample of the study was all 3rd semester students of S1 Nursing Science program at STIK Siti Khadijah Palembang in academic year 2018/2019. The total number of the population and sample was 35 students. The sample was taken by using total sampling technique. The tests were administrated twice as pre-test and post-test. After the pre-test was administered, the treatment was implemented. The post test was given after the treatment. The results of the tests were analyzed by using t-test through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) program. The result of the study showed that there was a significant difference of the students in writing achievement before and after implementing Story Circle technique. It can be concluded that Story Circle technique could improve 3rd semester students’ writing achievement at of S1 Nursing Science program at STIK Siti Khadijah Palembang in academic year 2018/2019.

This research used pre-Experimental Design using quantitative approach with one group pre-test and post-test design. It is intended to find out any the significant differences scores of the students before and after taught using Self-Assessment. The population of this study was all the First Semester of S1 Pharmacy Study Program. Whiles, the sample was consisted of 43 students. Based on posttest score of calculating SPSS the mean score 82.81, which means that the average of 43 students are get score is 82.81, indicated that the students can mastery writing well. Based on statistical calculation using SPSS 25.00 for windows, the researchers knew that the difference mean score of pre-test and post-test is 14,3489. The sig (2-tailed) or the p value (two-tailed) is 0.000. Given that the present test is one-tailed test, so the Sig. (2- tailed) or the p value (0.000) is divided by two: 0.000/ 2 = 0.000, and the significance level (α) was 0.05. Since 0.000 is smaller than significance level (α) 5%. The conclusion is that self-assessment is effective toward student’s writing achievement.

Nowadays, Speaking as one of four skills taught in English become popular and very important to be learned. Since 4.0 revolution era has been launched, the students from junior high school to university level are interested to study English especially speaking skill. The study aimed to investigate the significant difference in speaking achievement before and after  the students were taught using Information Gap Activity. The pre-experimental design through one group pretest-posttest design was used in this study. The 4th semester students of S1 Nursing Science program at STIK Siti Khadijah Palembang in academic year 2019/2020 was the population of this study. The sample of this study was all of the population of this study. Since the total number of the population was 22 students, they all selected as the sample in this study. The test was administered twice as pretest and posttest. The result of the test was analyzed by using t-test through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science).

The objective of this study was to find out the significant difference in writing achievement between the 11th grade students SMA Al-Amalul Khair Palembang who were taught by Mind Mapping technique and in that of those who were not. The second objective was to find out the improvement of the 11th grade students’ writing score at SMA Al-Amalul Khair Palembang after they were taught using Mind Mapping technique. The Quasi-experimental method through pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group design was used in this study. The population was all of 11th grade natural science students at SMA Al-Amalul Khair Palembang in academic year 2018/2019. The total number of the population was 52 students in which they were divided into two classes as class 11.1 and 11.2. The sample was taken non-randomly. Class 11.1 was chosen as the experimental group and class 11.2 was chosen as the control group. The total number of the sample in the experimental group was 22 students. The test was administered twice as pretest and posttest. The results of the tests were analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program.