THE INFLUENCE OF USING DRILL TECHNIQUE ON THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING COMPETENCE AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF MA SUBULUL HUDA DARMA-KUNINGAN

YELI PURNAMASARI: THE INFLUENCE OF USING DRILL TECHNIQUE IN THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING COMPTENCE AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF MA SUBULUL HUDA DARMA – KUNINGAN. In learning of speaking English is needed a technique to make the students easy to master and develop their skill well. In learning of speaking English also almost the students have difficulties like they do not have a good response of it. They also have difficulties to make their speaking fluent. in writing this thesis, the writer focuses on discussing the weakness of the students’ response and speaking competence. In this thesis, the researcher suggested to use drill technique in teaching and learning process, espeacially in speaking because drill technique and speaking has a good relation each other. As the theory of drill according to Robertson and Acklam (2000: 19) drill is a basic technique whereby the teacher can give students the opportunity to practice saying in a new word, phrase or structure in a highly controlled environment. The second one of theory of speaking, speaking is a complex process which involves constructing a message in a form that other people can understand, and delivering the messages using the correct pronunciation, stress and intonation. The method of this research is quantitative research that uses the formula of the statistic, especially the formula of product moment.it means that the data which is obtained from the field of the research analyzed statistically by using theformula of product moment correlation, the formula of t, degrre of freedom and determianton coefficient. In this research, MA Subulul Huda Darma – Kuningan is the located of the research. MA Subulul Huda Darma – Kuningan founded in November 20, 1990. It is located on Raya Darma Street no.214, Kawah Manuk Village, Darma subdistric, Kuningan Distric 45562. the researcher has got a result of the students response of using drill technique is very good with evidence the result of the average of the students’ response of using drill technique is 82.9, the students’ speaking competence is enough with evidence the result of the average of the students’ speaking test is 56.7. Finally the result of correlation of these variables shows 0.77. It means that 0.77 is strong or high correlation. The result of degrees freedom is 69, from this result it is known that the value ot r table in level 5% is 0.244 and in the level 1% is 0.317. It is known that rxy is bigger than r table.So Ha is received and Ho is refused. So the hypothesis of this research is accepted. In other words there is a positive and significant influence of using drill technique on the students’ speaking competence. From the calculation of this research, it is known that there is a positive and significant influence of using drill technique on the students’ speaking competence. So if the students’ response of drill technique is good, it can make the students’ speaking competence good and if the students’ response of using drill technique is not good, it can make a problem on the students’ speaking competence