THE USE OF INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITY IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO THE 11 TH GRADE STUDENTS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER 1 BUKIT BESAR PALEMBANG

The objective of the study was to find out whether or not there is significant difference on students’ speaking achievement taught by using information gap activity and teacher’s strategy at the eleventh grade students of Senior High School Number 1 Bukit Besar Palembang. The population of this study consisted of 371 eleventh grade students of Senior High School Number 1 Bukit Besar Palembang in academic year 2015/2016. There were 66 students taken as sample. Each class consisted of 33 students from class XI IPA 2 as control group and XI IPA 1 as experimental group. The sample of this study was taken by using convenience sampling method. In this study, the writer used quasi experimental design and posttest design. The instrument used in collecting the data was speaking test. The test was administered as posttest for both control and experimental group. The results of the test were analyzed by using IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) Statistics 20. The result showed that teaching speaking by using information gap activity had a significant difference on the students’ speaking achievement. It can be seen from the result of experimental group was higher than the achievement of control group. Based on the result analysis of means significant difference from students’ posttest scores in control and experimental group. It was found that t- obtained was higher than t-table. The t-obtained was 5.283 and t-table 2.000 at the significant level p-output is lower than 0.05 in two-tailed testing with the degree of freedom. If t-obtained was higher than t-table, so the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternatif hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that there was significant different in speaking ability between the students who were taught by using information gap activity than those who were not taught by using information gap activity. Keyword : Speaking Achievement. Speaking activity through information gap activit