INCORPORATING ENGLISH CLASSROOM ACTIVITY AND ENGLISH EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY IN PROMOTING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

This thesis study aimed at finding out students’ speaking ability by incorporating English Activity and English Extracurricular Activity. The research design a pre-experimental, in which it used pre-test and post-test comparison to find out the result of the research, the population of the research was all students of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMKN 1 Takalar which consisted of eleven classes. Each class consisted of 31 students, so the number of population was 210 students. Among the total number of population, the researcher took one class to be sample of this research by using purposive sampling technique.The instruments of this research was speaking test. To analyze the score of the students’ achievement in pre-test and post-test about “the effectiveness of English Activity and English Extracurricular Activity to improve students’ speaking ability”, the researcher used t-test analyzes. The result of the data showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. The value of t-test in terms of fluency (14.88) was greater than the t-table (1.697) at the level of significant (p) = 0.05 degree of freedom (df) = 30. It can be said that the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted. This meant that there was a significant difference between the students’ speaking ability before and after using English Activity and English Extracurricular Activity or it can be said that the incorporating of English Activity and English Extracurricular Activity was effective to improve students’ speaking ability at Eleventh Grade Students of SMKN 1 Takalar.