IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILL BY EXPLAINING WORD AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM OF STAIN PALOPO

ABSTRACT
Muh. Takdir , 2010. “Improving Speaking Skill by explaining word at the second
year students’ English program of STAIN Palopo”. Thesis, English Study
Program of Education Department of Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri
(STAIN) Palopo. Consultant I, Wisran, S.S., M.Pd.., and Consultant II,
Amalia Yahya, SE., M. Hum.
Key Words: Improving, explaining word technique, Students’ Speaking Skill, STAIN
Palopo.
This thesis focuses on the improvement of students’ speaking skill at STAIN
Palopo by explaining word technique. This thesis focused on two research questions;
can explaining word technique improve students’ speaking skill to the second year
English program of STAIN Palopo?, and how are the students’ attitude toward
expalining word in improving speaking skill?
This researcher applied pre-experimental research with one group of pre-test
and post-test design. This research was undertaken at the second year English
program of STAIN Palopo. The numbers of population were 150 students and the
researcher took 20 students as samples using the random sampling technique. The
researcher used guided interview, and questionnaires as instruments of the data
collection.
The result of this research shows that there were significant developments on
students’ speaking skill at the second year English program of STAIN Palopo after
conducting the treatments by using explaining word technique. In which, the score of
ttest (14,34) is bigger than the score of ttable (2,09). It means that explaining word
technique gives significant improvement to the students’ speaking skill. In addition,
the researcher found almost all of the students gave positive responds toward
explaining word technique applied in learning speaking.