IMPROVING SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING BLINDFOLD

Abstract

This research aimed to find out the improvement of the students’ speaking ability in terms of accuracy dealing with vocabulary and fluency dealing with smoothness through Blindfold Technique at Eight Grade I of SMP Negeri 4 Sungguminasa. The method in this research, the researcher used a pre-experimental research which Eight Grade Students of SMP Negeri 4 Sungguminasa with the number of the subject 30 students with 15 women and 15 man. Instruments are Speaking test and observation. The result of the data indicated that there was difference between students pre-test and post-test. The mean score of the students speaking ability also was greater than the mean score of pre-test (4,11 . 3,37), from t-test researcher found, the value of t-test (6,25) was greater that t-table (2,045) at the level of significance 0,05 with degree of freedom (df) = 29, it means that there was significant difference between student speaking ability before and after using Blindfold Technique.It is also said that the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and alternative hyphotesis (H1) was accepted. The result of the research, Blindfold Technique improved the students’ speaking ability. There was significant improvement with students’ speaking ability, especially improved the student ability in accuracy and fluency.