Using Talking Stick to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill (Experimetal

The aim of this study is to investigate how Talking Stick technique improves students’ speaking
skill at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri I Calang.The class chosen as the
experimental class was XI IA 2, which consisted of 22 students with 12 female students and
10 male students. This study used the quantitative approach pre-experimental design with one
group pre-test and post-test. The data collection was done through oral test as an instrument.
The writer gave a pre-test at the beginning of the teaching process, and at the end of the teaching
process, the writer gave a post-test after conducting the treatment. The data were then
calculated by using statistical formulas. The findings proved that the mean score of students’
posttest is higher than their pretest mean score where the mean score of posttest is 77.81 and
the mean score of pretest is 51.18 with the gain between the means score is 26.63. Meanwhile,
the t-score is 9.84 and the critical value in t-table is 0.05 (5%) is 1.720. It means the alternative
hypothesis (Ha) of this study is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. The findings
proved that the use of Talking Stick can improve students’ speaking skill.

Key words: Speaking ability, Talking Stick Technique