title: IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH INFORMATION GAP TECHNIQUE ON FIRST GRADERS AT SMAN 2 TULANG BAWANG UDIK creator: Widiya Cahyani , 1513042023 subject: 370 Pendidikan subject: 400 Bahasa subject: 420 Bahasa Inggris dan Inggris kuno (Anglo-Saxon) description: It is true that speaking requires complicated components of the target language. This fact implies that speaking the most difficult skill of language. For this reason, students face many difficulties such as lack of grammar, lack of vocabulary, confused about their idea of what to speak; as a result, they are not enough confident to speak. Therefore, this research aimed (1) To find out whether there is any significant difference between students’ speaking ability before and after being taught through Information Gap Technique. (2) To describe how does Information Gap Technique improve students’ speaking ability. This study used quantitative approach employing pre-test and post-test design. The population of the research was first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Tulang Bawang Udik. The sample was chosen by using purposive sampling. The sample consisted of one group of X IPA 1 which consisted 30 students. The instrument of the research was 18 items of pictures to be described. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The results showed that students in class have the gain score in pretest 1731 and in the post test was 2150 . This means that students who were taught using information gap showed higher with the difference score of 419. Furthermore, t-test analysis showed that there was statistically significant difference of students’ speaking achievement with the sig. of 5%. From the result, it can be concluded that (1) there was a significant difference of students’ speaking achievement taught through information gap technique and (2) there was also a significant difference of students’ speaking achievement in terms of vocabulary, fluency, grammar, pronunciation, comprehensibility. publisher: FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN date: 2022-05-20 type: Skripsi type: NonPeerReviewed format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/62659/1/ABSTRAK.pdf format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/62659/2/SKRIPSI%20FULL.pdf format: text identifier: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/62659/3/SKRIPSI%20TANPA%20PEMBAHASAN.pdf identifier: Widiya Cahyani , 1513042023 (2022) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH INFORMATION GAP TECHNIQUE ON FIRST GRADERS AT SMAN 2 TULANG BAWANG UDIK. FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN, UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG. relation: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/62659/