THE EFFECT OF USING QUANTUM LEARNING MODEL ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 11 JEMBER

Abstract

Speaking takes an important role in our life because we speak every day. We are talking, asking, arguing, giving opinion, ordering, directing, and even gossiping in oral form. For some people, speaking in English is relatively difficult It needs longer time to say words in English because the ideas in our mind should be translated into English at the time we are speaking. This also happen to foreign language learners. Meanwhile speaking in English becomes one of skill that should be mastered in the curriculum. Spoken English is often considered as one of factors that determines someone’s ability in English To develop speaking skill over the students, the teacher should apply the effective learning model that can encourage the students to be active during the course. For example by using Quatum Learning Model. Quantum Learning or accelerated learning is a teaching and learning model that could give comfort and relax in learning environment that later on will maximize information absorption during the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this research was to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using Quantum Learning Model on the Eighth Grade Students’ Speaking Achievement at SMPN 11 Jember. The research design was quasi experimental. It began from conducting homogeneity test by collecting students’ English score from the English teacher, deciding the experimental class and control class, giving treatment to the experimental class and teaching the control class using Communicative Language Teaching, then giving the same post-test to both classes, and the last analyzing the result of the post test by using independent sample t-test. The area of this research was SMPN 11 jember which was chosen because Quantum Learning Model had never been used by the English teacher in teaching English especially for teaching Speaking. Based on the result of the homogeneity test and random sampling method by lottery, class VIII A and class VIII B were chosen as the experimental class and the control class. The result of this research showed that there was a significant effect of using Quantum earning Model on the eighth grade students’ speaking achievement. It was proved by the value of significant column of t-test table by using SPSS sofware, and the result was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05. besides the t computation was higher than the t table (3, 844 > 1,995469). Based on the explanation above, it was concluded that there is a significant effect of using Quantum Learning Model on the eighth grade students’ speaking achievement at SMPN 11 Jember.