Abu Amar. 2014. The Effectiveness of Drilling Technique to Improve Students’

Speaking Skill. (A Quasi Experimental Research on the Eight Graders of
SMP Islam Sultan Agung Semarang in the Academic Year of
2014/2015).Advisor: Benny Krisbiantoro, S.Pd, M.Pd.A Final Project.
English Education Department, Sultan Agung Islamic University, 2014.

This study is aimed to look at how the use “Drilling technique to improve
student’s speaking skill of eight grader of SMP Islam sultan Agung 1 Semarang in
the academic year of 2014/2015.

The design of this study was experimental research, and used quantitative
approach. The population of the study was the eight graders of SMP Islam sultan
Agung 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2014/2015. In the case, the the two
group was choosen from the population, class VIIIA as experimental group and
class VIIIC as control group. In conducting the research, four steps was done,
there were try-out, pre-test, treatment, and post-test. First, try-out was given to
another class before other steps were conducted. After, pre-test was given to both
of group before treatment. And then, post-test was conducted after the last
research to know whether there was significant different result or not. In regard
analyzing the result of data, the researcher used SPSS.

The result of t-test showed that the mean of the experimental group and
control group in pre-test was similiar, 46.97 and 44.73. After conducting the
experiment, the researcher gave the post test. The mean score of the experimental
group was 70.97. and for the control group was 49.10. The T-test calculation
shows that the difference is significant enough. It was supported by the result of
the pre-test and post-test in the experimental class where the obtained t-value was
2.590 and t-table was 2.000, so t-value was higher than t-table (9304 > 2.000) and
sig 2-tailed (0.000 < 0.05). It could be assumed that H
was accepted.

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From the explanations above, it could be assumed that using drilling
technique has benefit impact in teaching-learning proses as resource. In addition,it
gives an effective ways for students to learn English fast, especially in speaking
skill.

Keyword : Drilling Technique, students’ Speaking Skill