Abstract:
This research is aimed to find the comparison of students’ speaking ability
between male and female in second semester of University of Islam Malang. The
specific of this research were to find out whether there is a significant difference
between male and female students’ speaking skill in second semester of English
Department in University of Islam Malang. The population of this study were 48
students and the sample were 33 students; 15 male students and 18 female students.
In collecting the data, the researcher used speaking test and the topic was describing
someone. To determine the comparison between two variables researched, the
researcher used independent sample t-test formula and analysed by using SPSS
version 20.0
The findings showed that the Sig. (2-tailed) is .974. it can be concluded the
Sig. (2-tailed) ≥ .05. It means that null hypothesis (H0) is accepted, therefore the
alternative hypothesis (H1) is rejected. In conclusion, there is no significant
difference between male and female students’ speaking ability in second semester
of University of Islam Malang although the result of mean score of female students
was higher than male students, even it is only slightly different.