The Pecha Kucha Presentations In Improving Student’s Speaking Ability ( A Study at Second Grade at SMP Inshafuddin Banda Aceh )

This research is The Pecha Kucha Presentation on Student’ English in Improve Students’ speaking ability at the second year students of SMP Inshafuddin Banda Aceh. It is to find out whether using Pecha Kucha in teaching speaking improves students’ ability in Speaking English and to what extent this teaching media improves their speaking ability. The population of this study was the Second grade at SMP Inshafuddin which was 58 students, while the sample was taken 36 students consisting of class B (18 students) as the experiment class and class C (18 students) as the control class. The experiment class was taught using a powerpoint as the media and the controlled class was taught without using it. Moreover, this research was conducted through the following procedures:giving pre-test, applying treatments, and giving post-test. After getting the data the results of the test were analysed by using statistical procedures. It was found that the average post-test score of experiment class (64,2) was higher than the average post-test score of control class(58,5). It showed that the students of the experimental class improved their speaking ability. Furthermore, it also proved by examining the hypothesis was higher than t-table (2,22 > 1,69). This means that there was a significant difference of achievement between the students who were taught by using Pecha Kucha and the students who were taught without using Pecha Kucha. In addition, the implementation of Pecha Kucha helps the students in the learning process, especially in speaking conversation. The result of data showed that the students were mostly interested in pecha kucha, and they agreed that it was helpful in making the students speak in English.