THE SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 1 GEBOG KUDUS IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014 TAUGHT BY USING DISCOVERY-DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE

Many countries in the world use English to communicate. Most of important information and knowledge are written in English. English also used n International affairs. Realizing the importance of English, the government decides English as compulsory subject in high school level. Based on the School Based Curriculum, speaking is one of the major skills that have the important role for students especially in increasing their knowledge and experience. Speaking must be taught and applied in the class. In fact, in daily life someone does more in speaking than writing. Many English teachers have spent much time in the class on reading and writing and almost forget the speaking ability. In teaching speaking, teacher must choose a technique which is suitable on the students’ condition. When the teacher asks the students to speak about something happened on them, most of them keep silent. There are some problems happened in speaking teaching. First, the students are less in vocabulary. Second, the students are afraid of making mistakes. The third problem is the use of monotonous technique. One technique which can be used in teaching speaking and also can improve students’ vocabulary is discovery-discussion technique. The objective of this research are to find out the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 before and after being taught by using discovery-discussion technique and to find out significant difference between the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/ 2014 before and after being taught by using discovery-discussion technique. In this research, the writer used experimental research as a design of the research. The data were collected by recording oral test of pre-test and post-test. Then, the writer identified and analyzed based on statistic calculation for getting good result accurately, completely and systematically. The population of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 and takes one class (XI-IPA3) as a sample that consist of 28 students. The result of this research shows that the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 after being taught by using discovery-discussion technique was categorized good. The mean is 80, and the standard deviation is 6.5. Meanwhile the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 before being taught by using discovery-discussion technique was categorized sufficient. The mean is 58.21 and standard deviation is 7.45. Moreover the calculation of t-observation (to) 19.64 was higher than t-table (tt) 2.06 in level of significance 5%. It means there is significance difference between the speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Gebog Kudus in academic year 2013/2014 before and after being taught by using discovery-discussion technique. Based on the result above, the writer suggests that the English teacher is expected can use discovery-discussion as an alternative technique to teach speaking. In usage of this technique, it is suggested to choose an interesting an updated material. For the students, it is suggested more active in every activity during teaching learning process both in asking question and practice the dialogue