THE INFLUENCE OF JOINING ENGLISH CLUB TOWARD STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT EIGHTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 PATIKRAJA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

Speaking is one of skills which should be mastered by students in studying English. Curriculum of English in Junior high school has not given yet the longer time for students to improve skill of speaking through conversation. To overcome this problem, SMP N 1 Patikraja tried to increase student's basic skill in English through extracurricular activity due lack of speaking ability in almost majority of students. One way to obtain more practices to speak outside of school is by joining English club. English club as an English extracurricular program in SMPN 1 Patikraja gives chance to students to speak in more flexible condition with their peers. In this research, the researcher discussed about the influence of joining English club toward students’ speaking ability at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Patikraja in the academic year 2018/2019. The aim of the research was to identify whether there was increment of speaking skill through joining English program. The researcher used survey method. The sample of the research was 20 students at eighth grade who joined English club in SMPN 1 Patikraja. The independent variable of this research was joining English club and the dependent variable was students speaking ability. The collecting data techniques used questionnaire and speaking test instrument which were analyzed using SPSS program. The result of this research concluded that there were low significant influence of joining in English club toward their speaking ability. The results of the speaking test using interval score showed that 7 (35%) students at a bad level, 8 (40%) students at a moderate level, 4 (20%) students at a good level and only 1 (5%) student at an excellent level. The equation of simple linear regression obtained for describing the influence of students’ speaking skill is Y = 10.679 + 0.082X with the coefficient of determination of 0.16. It means that the independent variable X gave 16% effect the dependent variable Y. There were several factors that gave impact the result of this research as follow; students’ perception of joining English club, lack of vocabulary mastery, students’ anxiety, and teacher or tutor teaching technique. Therefore, there is low significant influence of students who joining English club toward their speaking ability at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Patikraja in the academic year 2018/2019