THE USE OF ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS ’ SPEAKING ABILITY

peningkatan signifikan dari kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah pembelajaran melalui teknik bermain peran. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas 2 SMA Negeri 1 Tanjungbintang. Desain pre-test dan post-test satu kelompok digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Nilai rata-rata dari pre-test adalah 57.13 dan post-test adalah 82.46. Skor siswa meningkat dengan signifikan karena p<0.05 (p=0.000). Berdasarkan data, ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan signifikan dari pencapaian siswa dalam kemampuan berbicara sebelum dan sesudah pembelajaran melalui teknik bermain peran. Abstract: The objective of this research is to know whether there is a significant improvement of the students ‟ speaking ability after being taught through Role Play. The population of this research was the Second year students of SMA Negeri 1 Tanjungbintang. One group pre-test and post-test design was used..The mean score of pre-test was 57.13 and post-test was 82.46. It can be found that the increase of the mean was 25.33. It proved that the students ‟ scores increase significantly because p<0.05 (p=0.000). Based on the data, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference of students ‟ achievement in speaking ability before and after being taught through Role Play technique