The Speaking Ability of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Video Recorded.

Rose, LarraSybilDanning. 2012. The Speaking Ability of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught by Using Video Recorded. Skripsi.EnglishEducation.Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (i). Dr. H.A. HilalMadjdi, M.Pd., (ii). TitisSulistyowati, SS, M.Pd. Keywords: Speaking Ability, Video Recorded. Speaking is often viewed as an easiest activity to do for many people. For that, they only have to speak the conversation with classmates. But being able to speak well with the correct pronunciation is a competence that should be practiced. For some eleventh grade students of senior high school, they still get difficulties in speaking and understanding the content of English text.Some students said that speaking is one of difficult subjects. It could be proofed from the score of the students are not enough to achieve the KKM. In this research the writer uses Video Recorded as a technique media in teaching speaking. This research is aimed to know the ability of speaking of the students in the eleventh grade of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before being taught by Video Recorded.To know the ability of speaking of the students in the eleventh grade of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 after being taught by using Video Recorded.To find out whether or not is there any significant difference of the ability of speaking the students in the eleventh grade of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Video Recorded? This research is quantitative experimental research. The data were collected by recording. Instrument of the research is oral test. The writer gave pre test before being taught by using Video Recorded and gave post test afterbeing taught by using Video Recorded. The sample of the research is thirty four students from XI IPS 3. The sample got by using cluster random sampling. The results of the experiment in pre test before being taught by using Video Recorded are: the minimum score is 52, the maximum score is 72 and the mean of pre test is 59.7. Meanwhile the standard deviation is 5.8. It indicates that the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in Academic Year 2012/2013 before being taught by using Video Recorded is categorized as sufficient.The results of the experiment in post test after being taught by using Video Recorded are: the minimum score is 56, the maximum score is 88and the mean of post test is 72.9. Meanwhile the standard deviation is 7.6. It indicates that the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in Academic Year 2012/2013 after being taught by using Video Recorded is categorized as good. After processing the data found, the mean of the post test is better than the pre test. (72.9> 59.7).The t observation (t0) is 13.2,the level of significant (df) is1.694. Therefore, the mean difference of the students significance 5% df (33) = 1.694p: .05) concluded that there is significant difference the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in Academic Year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Video Recorded. In this research, the writer suggeststhe English teachers to use Video Recorded as a teaching technique media to improve students speaking ability.The students have to be more confident and not be afraid of making mistake when they are speaking in front of the class. The readers would have more information about the use of Video Recordedmedia in teaching speaking. For the further researchers, this skripsi also could be one of the references.So, everyone should increase their ability in improving the students speaking ability. Because the video recorded can help them learn about their own mistakes in practice speaking in English