THE EFFECT OF ROUND ROBIN TECHNIQUE TOWARD STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PERFORMANCE IN MTS. MUHAMMADIYAH PULAU PUNJUNG
The learner’s Speaking Performance becomes one of the crucial problems in teaching speaking for students of Mts. Muhammadiyah Pulau Punjung. Based on the preliminary research, the researcher find the students could not speak fluently. It is also difficult for them to speaking with each other. In the other hand, the researcher find the students have low confidence to improve their speaking performance. To overcome these problems, the teacher have applied that use round robin technique. This research aims at finding the significant effect of round robin technique to improve students speaking performance. Round Robin technique is primally a brainstroming technique in which students generation ideas but do no elaborate, explain, evaluate, or question the ideas. According Barkley, Round Robin technique is a technique supporting students to elaborate, explain, evaluate, the question with a word, phrase, or a short answer. The design of this research is experimental research. The informant of this research are two class in Mts. Muhammadiyah Pulau Punjung. In addition, for the technique of data collection, the researcher used pre test and post test to analyze the students speaking performance. The result show from the result and analyze the data of Pre- test and Post-test. Then, calculation of post-test both classes : was expermental class and control class, it was obtained that t-obtained was which higher than t-table with level of significance a=0,05. Round Robin Technique better then conventional technique in speaking. Thus it can be concluded that the intire hypothesis was accepted. It is proved that Round Robin Technique could help students in improving and enggaging their speaking and Round Robin Technique became better than conventional Technique.