Chain Story Technique in Improving Students’ Speaking Achievement at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Nabire.

Abstract

The objectives of this research is to find out whether or not the use of chain story technique effective in improving the students’ speaking achievement at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Nabire.

The research used pre-experimental method. The population of this research was the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Nabire, and the total number of population was 70 students. This research used purposive sampling technique. The members of sample were 9 students. The research data was collected by using chain story technique to get the students’ speaking achievement, which was analyzed by inferential statistic through SPSS version 20 for windows program. The students’ result of posttest is significantly improved than the students’ result of pretest by the mean score 77.67 > 63.33. The t-test value at significant level 0.05 in which the probability value is lower than the significant level (0.00 < 0.05). So, H1 was accepted and H0 was rejected. It can be concluded that the use of chain story technique is effective to improve the students’ speaking achievement.