The effect of drill method on speaking mastery in personal invitation

The researchers described about low mastery of students speaking in personal invitation sub topic that was solved by Drill Method. The problem were: students liked to use native language, students were shy to speak English, students were afraid of mispronouncing English words and teacher’s method of teaching. The purpose of this research is to know whether there is the effect of Drill Method on speaking mastery in personal invitation sub topic at grade VIII students of SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan.The method that is used in this research was experimental research. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were VIII 2 as experimental class that consisted of 30 students and VIII 3 as control class that consisted of 30 students. It was conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data was derived from pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data, the researchers used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researchers found that mean score of experimental class before using drill method was 53.34 and mean score after using drill method was 70.7.The effect of drill method on speaking mastery in personal invitation sub topic at grade VIII students of SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan was 12.58 with tcountwas higher than ttable(12.58>1.67155), it meant that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. There was the effect of Drill Method on speaking mastery in personal invitation sub topic at grade VIII students of SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan