THE INFLUENCE OF GALLERY WALK MODEL ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

This research purposed to find about whether or not Gallery Walk Model Influence Students’ Speaking Skill in term of vocabulary, particularly for the students in 7th grade of SMPN 1 Sungguminasa, Gowa. This research used quantitative research method conducting Pre-Experimental Design, with 256 students as the population. In this research, the researcher used Non-Probability sampling that is sampling incidental and number of sample are 32 students. This research consist two variables that are independent variable is Gallery Walk Model, and dependent variable is Speaking Skill. The result of analysis data shows the mean score of students’ vocabulary was greater in the post-test than in the pre-test (81 > 56.75). It proved from the score of students’ vocabulary in post-test was improved 42.57% from the score of pre-test. And the result of t-test in vocabulary is accepted, with the greater score of t-test than t-table (23.704 > 2.040). It concluded that Gallery Walk Model is influenced to improve vocabulary of students in speaking skill.