The Effect of Project Based Learning on Students' Speaking Skills at the First Grade of SMAN 1 Tomia

Abstract

This study aimed to find out whether there was a significant effect of using project-based learning on students' speaking skills in the first grade of SMAN 1 Tomia. The research question formulated "is there any significant effect of project based-learning on students' speaking skills at SMAN 1 Tomia?". The design of the study was a pre-experimental research design that consisted of one group pre-test and post-test. Post-test was done to know students' ability after treatment by using project-based learning. The sample of this study was the students in the first grade of SMAN 1 Tomia, namely class X IPA1 who were registered in the academic year 2018/2019. The data analysis of the study was a paired sample t-test to determine the effect of using project-based learning on students' speaking skills. The results showed that students' speaking ability in the post-test (3.1875) was higher than in the pre-test (2.0893). The hypothesis testing found that the significance level was 0.00 since if the significance value was less than 0.05, i.e., 0.00<0.05. This indicated that the null hypothesis (H₀) was rejected, and H₁ was accepted. It meant that there was a significant effect of using project based-learning to improve students' speaking skills in the first grade of SMAN 1 Tomia.

Keywords:

Speaking, Teaching Speaking, Project-based Learning.