The Effect of Radio Broadcasting on Students' Speaking Achievement

Abstract

Speaking is the ability to use language to express the feeling, ideas, and opinion. Speaking is one of the language skills that should be learnt and mastered. Many researchers have discussed about the radio broadcasting as an alternative teaching strategy to support students increasing their speaking skills. The researcher conducts the study in the different level. This research is aimed to find out the effect of radio broadcasting on students’ speaking achievement at second grade of SMP Bilingual Terpadu Krian on academic year 2019/2020. The research problem is whether the students of second grade in SMP Bilingual Terpadu Krian have higher speaking skill after taking radio broadcasting. This research adopted a pre-experimental research design. The instrument of the test was the oral speaking test. The subjects of the research are the student of second grades at SMP Bilingual Terpadu. They were taught speaking skill by using radio broadcasting. Before giving the treatment the students were given pretest and after giving the treatment, the students were also given a post test for collecting the data. The data of the test which were in the form of the gained score was analyzed using a paired sample t-test with the significant level of p=5%. It was found that the mean score of the pre-test was 45.20667 and the mean score of the post-test was 77.70833. The value of t-obtained = 21.398 (p: .000). Therefore, it can be concluded that the application of radio broadcasting on students’ speaking achievement was effective. It is suggested that other researchers conduct the research with different research design, level of students, additional instruments and number of participant.