The Use of Talk Show Learning Strategy to Improve Students’ Speaking Ability

This research is about the implementation of Talk Show learning strategy in improving students’ speaking ability at the second year students of MAS DarulUlum Banda Aceh. The aims of study was to examine whether using Talk Show learning strategy in teaching speaking can improve speaking ability of the second year students of MAS Darul Ulum Banda Aceh, to find out if there any particular aspect of speaking that mostly improve, and to analyze how is students’ response toward the talk show learning strategy applied in improving the students’ speaking skill.The population of this study was the whole member of the second year students of MAS Darul Ulum Banda Aceh. The sample was the students of class XI-MIA 1 as the control class and class XI-BAHASA as the experimental class. In collecting the data, the writer used tests and questionnaire. After getting the data, the results of the tests were analyzed by using statistical procedures. It was found that the average score of post-test of experimental class (64,20) was higher than the average score of post-test of control class (61,7). It showed that the students of experimental class improved their speaking ability. Furthermore, it was also proved by examining the hypothesis that to was higher than t-table (2,03> 1,68). This means that there was significant difference of achievement between the students who were taught by using Talk Show learning strategy, and the students who were taught without using Talk Show learning strategy in learning speaking. Furthermore, the writer also analyzed the aspect of speaking that mostly improved toward the students in experimental class is vocabulary aspect.In addition to the analysis of the questionnaire, the writer found that most of the students agreed that Talk Show Learning Strategy motivated the students in learning speaking. Moreover, all of the students agree that Talk Show learning strategy could improve their speaking ability