The implementation of small group discussion to improve students’ speaking ability at grade viii a of mts bina ulama kisaran

Skripsi, Medan: Department of English Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training, State Islamic University of North Sumatera, Medan 2017. Keyword: Speaking, Classroom Action Research, Small Group Discussion. This research was aimed to find out the improvement of the students‘ achievement at speaking through small group discussion method. The subject of this research was the second grade students MTs Bina Ulama, Kisaran, in academic year 2016/2017. It consisted of one class with 45 students as respondents. This research was conducted by using classroom action research. The technique of analyzing data was applied in this research were qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were taken from observation sheet, interview and documentation. The quantitative data were taken from tests. The tests were given to the students in the form of pre-test, post-test I and post-test II. The result of data analysis showed that there was an improvement on the students‘ speaking ability from each cycle. It was showed from the mean of pre-test was 62.22, after implementation of small group discussion strategy was applied, there was improvement of the result of the students‘ mean which was 73.04 and for the second cycle after reflection on the first cycle there was an improvement of the students‘ mean which was 81.08. Moreover in the pre-test, there were 40% (18 students of 45 students) who got score ≥ 70. In the post-test I, there were 71.2% (32 students of 45 students) who got score ≥ 70. In the post-test II, there were 100% (45 students of 45 students) who got score ≥ 70. So, the total percentage of the improvement from pre-test to post-test II was about 60%