THE EFFECT OF USING ELICITATION TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 01 SENTAJO RAYA KUANTAN SINGINGI REGENCY

Based on School Based Curriculum (SBC), speaking is one of the English language skills that must be taught and learned in Senior High School. State Senior High School 01 Sentajo Raya Kuantan Singingi Regency is a school which uses SBC as the curriculum in the teaching and learning process. After doing observation in this school, the researcher found that the students still had difficulties in speaking English. The students were difficult to communicate their ideas in English. In this case, the teacher was expected to find a good method in order to give a good contribution to increase students’ ability in speaking English by applying elicitation technique as a replacement of previous technique used by teacher which were Total Physical Response and 2 cycle 4 stages. This research aimed at finding out whether there was a significant effect of using elicitation technique on speaking ability of the students at Senior High School 01 Sentajo Raya Kuantan Singingi Regency. It consisted of two variables, those were the use of elicitation technique was as an independent variable or variable X and students’ speaking ability was as a dependent variable or variable Y. The design of this research was quasi - experimental research. In analyzing the data, the writer used statistical analysis which used SPSS 17.0 computer program. It was obtained that tobserved was higher than ttable. It means null hypothesis (H0) is rejected, and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It could be stated that 2.02 < 5.676 > 2.72. In conclusion, there is a significant effect of using elicitation tecnique on the students’ speaking ability at State Senior High School Sentajo Raya Kuantan Singingi Regenc