A Podcast Show “Self Improvement” on Students’ Speaking Skill at the Tenth Grade of SMA Sa’Idiyah in Salafiyah Sa’Idiyah Buduran Arosbaya Bangkalan: The Experimental Study

Abstract

Learning speaking English has been needed for everyone to express our thoughts, feelings, and ideas with language. In a learning process, the teacher’s media was an important thing. In addition, teacher should be creative to use some media in English teaching. This research used podcast show to measure students’ speaking skill. Students have studied without feeling bored or not interested to the lesson. The objective of this research is to know the use of Podcast Show to see the effectiveness at the Tenth Grade of SMA Sa’idiyah in speaking skill. This research used a quantitative method especially pre-experimental research one group pre-test and post-test design. The data collection used test and documentation. Then the data analysis were Normality test and T-test. Based on the research in the class X-3 at SMA Sa’idiyah can be seen that the result of the Normality test of pre-test and post-test was significant 0,209 and 0,125 > 0,05. And the sample T-test was significant 0.00 < 0.05 so that H1 was accepted and H0 was rejected. Therefore, students’ speaking skill was higher after using Podcast Show.