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C. Relevant study
There were researchers had been done by researchers about speaking. Firstly, Nurmilah by the title “The effectiveness of using information gap in
developing students’ speaking skill”. She used the experimental research. The writer did the research one class. Before did the activity, she gave pre-test to
find out the students’ basic competence. Then, she taught speaking by using information gap technique. Finally, she gave post-test to know whether there
was significant influence of implementation of information gap technique in teaching speaking achievement through the growth of the students’ pre-test
score. Based on the data analysis above, the result showed that the coefficient is 11.82. It meant that there was a significance increase in teaching speaking
through information gap. From the result of calculation, it was obtained the value of the t-observation t
is 11.82. The writer used the degree of significance of 5 the value of degree of significance is 2.04. If the to
compared with each value of the degrees of significance, the result is 2.04 11.82. The writer summarized that improving the students’ speaking by
using information gap technique had positive influence for the second grade of SMP Negeri 153 Jakarta.
Second, Nana Nurjanah by the title “The Relationship between Students’ Interest in Speaking and their Speaking Score” the method used is
correlational study, she takes only one class as the subject. She gave each of the students a questionnaire related to the students’ interest in speaking to be
collaborating with their speaking score. The result of the analysis in the research showed that there is positive correlation between students’ interest in
speaking and their speaking score. Interest gives positive influence in teaching- learning speaking skill. Students who have higher interest in speaking get a
better score than the lower one. Third, Nina Zuhairiah in her research Developing Students’ English
Speaking Ability by Using Contextual Teaching Learning the research used Classroom Action Research CAR as the method of research. The CAR was
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done based on Kurt Lewins’ design. The writer did two cycles inevery which each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting and each
cycle there are two meeting. The data were gathered through qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were gained by analyzing the interview
an observation result. Then, quantitative data were obtained from students’ speaking score of pretest and post test. The result of this research shows that
using contextual teaching learning in teaching speaking at VIII grade of MTs. Al-Ikhwaniyah can motivate the students to speak English and improve their
speaking ability. The students’ responses showed that they were interested to learn English speaking because they thought that the activities were interesting.
Moreover, the mean score pretest was 60.94. Then, the mean score of posttest cycle 1 was 71.50 and the mean score of posttest cycle 2 was 72.25. In
addition, there were 3 students 8.3 who passed KKM in the pretest. Meanwhile, in the cycle 1, there were 16 students 44.4 who passed KKM
and it gained which was in the posttest cycle 2 there were 27 students 75 who passed KKM, so the criteria of success was achieved. Related to the result
of observation and interview, the researcher concluded that teaching speaking by using contextual teaching learning at VIII grade of MTs Al-Ikhwaniyah can
develope students’ speaking ability and the students were motivated in the teaching-learning process.
D. Research Hypothesis