THE EFFECT OF USING TELLING JOKES STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 PANGKALAN KERINCI PELALAWAN REGENCY THE EFFECT OF USING TELLING JOKES STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE SECO

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Based on school based curriculum (KTSP), speaking is as one of a English
Language skills that must be taught and learned in Junior high school. State Junior
High School 1 Pangkalan Kerinci Pelalawan Regency is one of schools that uses it
as a guide in teaching-learning process. After doing preliminary observation at the
second year of State Junior High School 1 Pangkalan Kerinci Pelalawan Regency,
some of the students at the second year still had low ability in their speaking. The
researcher interpreted that they had low ability in speaking because they had lack
of self confidence in expressing their ideas in English.
The objectives of this research were to find out the ability at the second
year students in speaking ability taught without using telling jokes strategy, to
find out the ability of the second year students in speaking ability taught by using
telling jokes strategy, and to obtain the effect of using telling jokes strategy
toward students speaking ability at the second year of State Junior High School 1
Pangkalan Kerinci Pelalawan Regency.
The type research was quasi-experimental research. The design based on
pretests, posttests, and use of a control group was employed in this research. The
subject of this research was the second year students at State Junior High School 1
Pangkalan Kerinci Pelalawn Regency. The object of this research was the effect of
using telling jokes strategy toward students’ speaking ability. The population of
this research was all of the second year students in the academic year of
2011/2012. The sample was chosen through clustering sample randomly. One
class was nominated as the experimental group and another one was the control
group.
To analyze the data, the researcher used Independent t-test formula. The
result of the data analysis was t
o
that was higher than t
table
. In other words, there is
a significant effect of using telling jokes strategy toward students speaking ability
at the second year of state junior high school 1 Pangkalan Kerinci Pelalawan
Regency. Therefore, it can be concluded that students’ speaking ability taught by
using telling jokes strategy was better than students’ speaking ability taught by
using three phase technique.

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