DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY BY SNOWBALL THROWING TECHNIQUE AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF BRAWIJAYA UNIVERSITY

One of the important skills that should be mastered by students is speaking. However, teaching speaking in Indonesia confront many problems. Students worried about making mistakes because they feel shy and cannot think of anything, lacking exposure of English, low grammar mastery as the cause of a mother tongue used. In other hand, many teachers in Indonesia still implemented the conventional method of teaching such as grammar translation. The objective of this study is to develop students’ speaking ability through snowball throwing technique at English Language Education Department of Brawijaya University. This research design belongs to quasi experimental research design of non-randomized groups, which taken from the existing classes. There were 60 students participated in this study. They were divided into two groups, 30 students of D class was assigned as the experimental group and 30 students of C class was assigned as the control group. Pre and post-test were used to collect the data. The result of pre and post-test was analyzed by statistical procedures of IBM SPSS 16.0. Statistically the researcher analyzed it using the Kolmogorov-Smimov test, Levene’s test and one-way anova. The result of the post-test showed that the average score of the experimental group was higher (78.1383) than the control group (59.9920). Based on the research finding of the use snowball throwing technique, that can be seen from the result of the post-test, there were significant. Therefore, there was significant evidence to accept the alternative hypothesis