The effect of using bamboo dancing method on students’ speaking ability at the tenth grade of man 4 medan in 2017/2018 academic year

This research was intended to find out the effect of using Bamboo Dancing method on students’ speaking ability. This research used experimental design. The population of this research was tenth grade students of MAN 4 Medan in academic year 2017/2018 which was divided in eleven classes and the total number was 337 students. The researcher used cluster random sampling to get the sample. The sample consisted of 54 students. The research was conducted by using experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by using Bamboo Dancing method, while the control group taught without Bamboo Dancing method. The instrument of the collecting the data was speaking test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The calculation shows that t-observed (3,293) is higher than t-table(2.009) or t-observed > t-table (3,293> 2.009) at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 52. Therefore,the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that teaching speaking by using Bamboo Dancing method has more significant effect than teaching speaking without using Bamboo Dancing method