THE EFFECT OF AUDIO VISUAL AID ON SPEAKING SKILL OF THE GRADE EIGHT STUDENTS OF SMP PGRI 1 KEBUMEN

The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference on the speaking skill between the students who are taught using audio visual aids and those who are taught by using non-audio visual aids. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental study. The study was conducted in SMP PGRI 1 Kebumen. The population of the study included all the eighth grade students of SMP PGRI 1 Kebumen in the academic year of 2012/2013. Two classes were selected using the cluster random sampling technique from the population as the experimental and control groups, i.e. Class VIII A and Class VIII B. There were 24 students in Class VIII B and 22 students in Class VIII A. Class A was chosen as the experimental group while Class B was chosen as the control group. The experimental group was taught by using audio visual aids whereas the control group was taught by using non-audio visual aids. The data were collected by administering a pre-test and a post-test. The data were analyzed using ANOVA. The results of the data analysis are as follows. First, the mean score of the post-test in the experimental group (13.14) is higher than that in the control group (11.58). Second, there is a significant difference in the reading comprehension ability between both groups indicated by the ANCOVA results, in which the significance level is 0.035 which is less than 0.05 (F= 4,592, p ˂ 0.05).Therefore, the hypothesis of this research “There is a significant difference in the speaking skills between the eighth grade students of SMP PGRI 1 Kebumen in the academic year of 2012/2013 taught using audio visual aids and those taught without using audio visual aids” is accepted. Finally, it can be concluded that audio visual aids applied in teaching speaking is effective for improving the students’ speaking skills