THE EFFECT OF DRILLING TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT AT GRADE VIIIOF SMPN 5 KOTA JAMBITHESIS

ABSTRACT Mayasari,Rika. 2020. The Effect of Drilling Technique Towards Students’ Speaking Achievement AT Grade VIII Students of SMPN 5 Kota Jambi. A thesis. English Education Program of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Batanghari University. The First Advisor; Wennyta, M.Pd. The Second Advisor; Efa Silfia, M.Pd. Key Words : Drilling Technique, Speaking Achievement This research was done to find the effect of Drilling Technique of students’ speaking Achievement at Grade VIII Student of SMPN 5 Kota Jambi. The researcher used quantitative method as the research methodology with random sampling. The sample of this research was the second grade, VIIIA and VIIIB. The instrument of this research was a speaking dialog. The students involve 74 students of the VIII Grade students at SMPN 5 Kota Jambi as the object of the study and divided in two classes. Class VIIIA consisting 37 students as experiment class and Class VIIIB consisting 37 students. The instrument of the research was speaking test. Drilling technique in teaching speaking makes learning interesting and the students enjoying during learning activities and students’ can speak in treatment process. The data was collected by using pre test and post test. Thus alternative hypothesis was accepted, the value of t-test was higher than the value t-table (2,9288>1,68). Based on the finding above, it could be concluded that drilling technique has a significant effect students’ speaking achievement at VIII Grade of SMPN 5 Kota Jambi