IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING HAND DOLLS OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA YMPI RAPPANG
The objectives of this research was to find out whether or not the use of hand dolls can improve the students’ speaking ability at Eleventh grade of MA YMPI Rappang.This research applied a pre-experimental method. The population of the research was the eleventh grade students of MA YMPI Rappang in academic year 2015-2016. There were 57 students spread in 3 classes (XI IPA, XI IPS 1, and XI IPS 2) and each class consist appropriately 19 students. The researcher took cluster sampling and chose XI IPS 1 as the representative and the number of total sample was 19 students. The data were collected by using interview test that consisted 10 items.The result of data analysis showed that there was significant difference of the students’ speaking ability after giving treatment by using hand dolls as a media to teach English especially in speaking. It was proved by the mean score of post-test which was higher than the mean score of pre-test (69.94 > 51.36). The researcher found that the p-value was lower than the α (0.000 < 0,05), it means that H1 accepted.Based on the result above, the researcher concluded that the use of hand dolls can improve the students’ speaking ability of the eleventh grade students of MA YMPI Rappang.