PENGARUH TEKNIK BERMAIN PERAN TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERBICARA SISWA DALAM MENDESKRIPSIKAN ORANG PADA KELAS DELAPAN PONDOK PESANTREN AL IRSYAD BULAAN KAMBA
ABSTRACT NUR AFINA PUTRI (2316046): “The Effect of Using Role Play Technique toward Students’ Speaking Ability in Describing People at Eight Grade of Pondok Pesantren Al-Irsyad Bulaan Kamba Academic year 2022/2023” This research was done because there were some students that had problems in speaking. The problems were the students cannot speak in English communicatively. The students felt difficult to construct the sentence verbally, had limited vocabulary, could not pronunce word correctly, and had problem in fluency and comprehension. Relate to this condition, the researcher tried to use Role Play Technique as a technique to teach the students in speaking ability. Therefore, the researcher wanted to find out the effect of using Role Play technique toward students’ speaking ability in describing people at eight grade of Pondok Pesantren Al-Irsyad Bulaan Kamba in the academic years 2022/2023. This research is quasi experimental research that involves two variables which are independent and dependent variables. The independent variable was Role Play technique and dependent variable was student’s speaking ability. This research was conducted at Pondok Pesantren Al-Irsyad Bulaan Kamba. The population of this research was 84 students. The researcher took the sample use Simple Random Sampling. The total sample was 58 students from class VIII.A and VIII.B. Class VIII.A was used as experimental class in which the treatment gave using Role Play Technique on describing people. Meawhile, class VIII.B was used as control, and the researcher taught with Conventional Technique. There was one instrument used that was oral test (Role Play in pairs). The data was analyzed using SPSS 21 version. The researcher discovered that the effect of Role Play technique in describing people of students’ speaking ability at Pondok Pesantren Al-Irsyad Bulaan Kamba was significant. The result of this research showed that there was the effect of using Role Play technique toward students’ speaking ability in describing people at eight grade of Pondok Pesantren Al-Irsyad Bulaan Kamba in the academic years 2022/2023. It has presented by using statistical of paired sample test SPSS. The criteria of paired simple t test was the Ha is accepted when the significance test 0,005, in contrast, Ho is refused. Based on the research which the significance test was 0,00 0,05, it meant that Ha is accepted. In conclusion, the hypothesis of Ha was there is significant the effect of using Role Play technique toward students’ speaking ability in describing people at eight grade of Pondok Pesantren Al-Irsyad Bulaan Kamba in the academic years 2022/2023.