IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILLTHROUGH PAIR WORK INTERVIEW

The objective of this research is to prove whether or not the use of pair work interview canimprove the speaking skill of the year ten students of SMA Negeri 7 Palu. The research design was quasi experimental research. The population of this research was the year ten students of SMA Negeri 7 Palu and the sample was X Mia 1 (28 students) and X Mia 2 (25 students). The researcher employed purposive sampling technique and adopted two group pre-test and post-test design. The pre-test was used to measure the students’ skill in speaking before the treatment is conducted, and the post-test was used to measure the students’ skill after the treatment is conducted. The result of the test reveals that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 71 and in control group is 70.5 and the mean score of the post-test in experimental group is 90.6 and in control group is 86. By applying t-test formula to compare the mean score of the two groups, it is to find out that the t-counted value is 4.56. By applying the level of significance is set up at 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) of the table value is 28 + 25 - 2 = 51, it is to find out that t-table value was 2.01. It shows that the t-counted was higher than the t-table. It means that the hypothesis of this research is accepted. In conclusion, the use of pair work interview is effective to improve the students’ skill in speaking.Keywords:Speaking skill, Pair work interview, fluency, comprehensibilit