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%A Slamet, Tri Wahyudi
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%D 2014
%F eprints:1626
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%T IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH JIGSAW  TASK AT THE CLASS NINE OF SMPN 2 BUKIT KEMUNING
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/1626/
%X The objective of the research is to find out whether or not there is an improvement  of students’ speaking ability after being taught through jigsaw task and to identify  the students’ response after being taught trough jigsaw task. The population of the  research is the class IX b odd semester in academic year of 2012/2013 and one  class is taken as the sample. The sample is selected using simple probably  sampling trough lottery drawing.  This is a quantitative study using one group pretest – posttest design. This  research was conducted in 5 meetings for three weeks. The pretest was conducted  before the treatment and posttest was conducted after the treatment. In this  research the writer focuses on speaking ability in forms of interpersonal dialogue.  11The result of pretest and posttest shows that the total gained score of the  students’ speaking ability improvement was 504 which the gain score increased  from 2088 to 2592. In other words, it is known that their gain score improved  24.14%. Besides, the researcher found that the mean score of students’ speaking  ability increased from 61.41 in pretest to 76.23 in posttest or it can be said that the  improvement of the students’ speaking ability is 14. 81%. Furthermore, it is found  that the highest mean score improvement of each aspect of speaking from the  pretest to the posttest was “grammar” where its gained score improvement was  3.88%. In the other hand, the hypothesis test shows the value of two tail  significant is p=0.000 in which the significant improvement is determined by  p<0.05. an other words, H is approved if sig <p. the result shows 0.00 significant  levels. Besides, it is also found that jigsaw task has been responded well by the  students. This finding is supported by the students’ response from the questioner.  From the result, there were 96,6% students give positive respond toward jigsaw  task and 3.4% give negative respond. The students felt that jigsaw task technique  helped them to understand the expression easily.  Therefore, it was concluded that jigsaw task could significantly improve students  speaking ability especially in the aspect of grammar. And the students give  positive response towards the implementation of teaching speaking through  jigsaw task.  Key words:Jigsaw task,Improving, Speaking ability, Students response.