The Effect Of Using Describing Picture Technique Towards Students Speaking Ability

The objective of this research was to find out whether there is the effect of Describing Picture Technique towards Speaking Ability of the first grade students’ at SMAN 1 Kampar Utara or not. There are two variables of this research: the first variable or variable X is Describing Picture Technique as independent variable and the second variable or variable Y is teaching speaking ability as dependent variable. Before the variable Y gives a particular treatment, the pre-test is given and after the variable Y gives a particular treatment, the researcher takes post-test of variable X to know the effect of Describing Picture Technique in teaching speaking. This research involved two group of students, they were experimental group and Control group. The researcher subjects were the first grade students of X Science at SMAN 1 Kampar Utara. as population of this research. Grade X science contains 56 students were chosen as the sample. The experimental class belong to experimental group included of 28 students while the students of control class belong to control group was 28 students. Furthermore the researcher findings included the result of the research, as follow: the analysis results of experimental class shows that the mean score at pre-test in experimental class from two raters was 65.00 and the mean score of post-test was 92.16. meanwhile, the analysis result of control class shows that mean score of pre-test in control class from two raters was 65.36 and the mean score of post-test was 86.18. it shows that the experimental class experiences improvement in their speaking test, and the hypothesis testing indicates that the score of the experimental class students Were higher than the control class. It can be seen that the value of sig.(2-tailed) 0.000 lower than value at the significant level 0.5. Furthermore, the hypothesis testing indicates that the score of the experimental; class students were significantly higher than that of class. So, Describing Picture Technique could be one of references in teaching material class