| dc.description.abstract | Speaking English is becoming fundamental in EFL (English as Foreign
Language) countries. As the schools in one of those EFL countries, International
Standard School (SBI) and Designated International Standard School (RSBI) try to be
up to date to the current issue. Accordingly, the current curriculum, the InstitutionalBased
Curriculum,
for
RSBI
depicts the urge of being part of the issue. As stated by
Kementerian Pendidikan Nasional (2011:15-16), students of RSBI are expected to be
able to communicate in English. This makes speaking in English unavoidable in both
SBI and RSBI. Therefore the students of those schools need to do their best in
speaking to achieve this goal. Ideally the teaching and speaking instruction in those
schools also needs innovation which can help the students feel at ease and
enthusiastic in the process of the learning and also when they are speaking in English.
One of the ways to alter the old speaking instruction is by applying some stimulating
media.
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation has been used in variety of fields as well
as in education. It is widely available and easy to use. This software is effective in
producing attractive media which support the learning process. Microsoft PowerPoint
Presentation in this research was applied to provide situational context to the
students. Ena (2001) mentions that the combination of pictures, words, shapes,
motions, colours and sounds which is possible to make with the assistance of
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation provides a stimulus for the students to begin the
process of thinking and developing input and to produce output as a result. Therefore,
speaking, which requires the process of developing input and later producing it as
output, ideally can be facilitated through the application of Microsoft PowerPoint
Presentation.
The aim of this research was to know whether or not there was a significant
effect of using Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation on the eighth grade RSBI students’
speaking achievement at SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso.
The research design was intact-group comparison which was one of the preexperimental
designs.
This
design
was
only
useful
when
there
was
a
basis
of
knowing
that
the
population
was
homogeneous.
Hence,
the
homogeneity
analysis
of
the
eighth
grade
students’
speaking
score
was
administered.
Two
classes
were
randomly
singled
out;
one as the experimental class, another as the control class. The experimental
class was given treatment. After the treatment was over, both classes were given the
same posttest, and the result was analysed by means of t-test.
The area of the research was SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso. It was selected
because Microsoft PowerPoint had never been used by the English teachers to teach
speaking. Since the classes were found homogeneous, class VIII A and VIII B were
chosen randomly through lottery.
The result of the t-test showed that there was a significant effect of using
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation on the eighth grade RSBI students’ speaking
achievement. It was verified by the value of significant column of Lavene’s test
which was 0.042. Because it was lower than 0.05, the null hypothesis (H
was
rejected, and the alternative hypothesis (H
) was accepted. The degree of relative
effectiveness showed that teaching speaking by using Microsoft PowerPoint was
12.928% more effective than teaching speaking without Microsoft PowerPoint
Presentation.
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Based on the explanation, it was concluded that there was a significant effect
of using Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation on the eighth grade RSBI students’
speaking achievement. | en_US |
