The Effect of Teaching Techniques and Motivation on Students’ Speaking Ability at SMA 8 Padangsidimpuan

Abstract

There are such countless elements that make individuals troublesome in dominating talking expertise effectively, like absence of training, terrified of committing errors, reluctant to be snickered and don't feel certain, or at some point they appear don't have thoughts in rehearsing their talking, and it also faced by students of SMA N 8 Padangsidimpuan. According to information from English teachers, problems that often face by them such as new curriculum and position of this school that located in the edge of Padangsidimpuan. Many students still use mother tongue to communicate with others. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate if pupils' speaking ability is significantly higher when taught using the fishbowl method than when taught using the debate method, students with high motivation have significantly better speaking ability than students with low motivation, and there is no significant interaction between teaching technique and motivation on students' speaking ability. This study conducted in SMA N 8 Padangsidimpuan. The participants in this study were all students in grade X during the academic year 2020/2021. There were a total of 209 students. Cluster random sampling was used to select the sample for this study. Cluster random sampling is a non-biased method of selecting a sample group of subjects. It used to only take into account two classes. The first class, X IA 1, was used as an experimental group and was taught using Fishbowl, while the second, XI IA 2, was used as a control group and was taught using Debate. The total number of sample was 45. This research used two instruments. They are questionnaires to determine a student's motivation and a speaking test to determine a student's speaking abilities, both of which are obtained using an Analytical Scoring Rubric. After obtaining the results of four post-tests given to both experimental groups, data analysis was carried out. The results were then analyzed using two types of statistical analysis: descriptive statistical analysis, which used terms like mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and variance to describe the data, and inferential statistical analysis, which used two-way ANOVA with a significance level of 5% or 0.05. (SPSS).The result of data analysis proved that there is significant effect both fishbowl technique and debate technique in speaking ability, students' motivation is significantly affect students' achievement in speaking ability both low and high motivation, there was a significant interaction both teaching technique and motivation on students' achievement in speaking ability with P-Value 0.014 < 0.05 (SPSS)

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