| dc.description.abstract | The research design was pre-experimental with intact-group comparison
design. SMP 6 Jember was determined purposively under several reasons that are (1)
the English teacher never used jazz chants in teaching English especially teaching
Speaking; (2) There was no research on such topic; and (3) the principal granted the
researcher permission to conduct a research on the topic. Participant of the research
was seventh grade students. The research began by conducting homogeneity test
using students English test obtained from the teachers, deciding the experimental
group and the control group, giving the treatment to the experimental group, giving
the same posttest to both groups, and the last analyzing the results of the posttest by
using independent sample t-test in SPSS.
Based on the result of the homogeneity test, the population of the participant
was heterogeneous, so the researcher picked two classes with closest mean as the
participant of this research. Class VII-D and class VII-E were chosen as the control
group and the experimental group.
The result of this research showed that there was a significant effect of using
jazz chants on the seventh grade students’ speaking ability. It was proven by the value
of significant column of t-test table by using SPSS Software was 0,006 which lower
than 0.05. Moreover, the degree of relative effectiveness of using jazz chants on the
students speaking ability was 3,77%.
Based on the explanations above, it was concluded that there was a
significant effect of using jazz chants on the seventh grade students’ speaking ability
at SMP Negeri 6 Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year. | en_US |
