Using Task-based Instruction to Increase Students’ Speaking Skill

Task-based Instruction is an approach that emphasizes on the use of pedagogical task and enables the students to produce the target language through the completion of communicative task. In this study, the writer conducted a research entitled “Using Task-based Instruction to Increase Students’ Speaking Skill”. The purposes of this study are to find out that Task-based Instruction can increase students’ speaking skill and investigate students’ responses in implementing Task-based Instruction. The study was conducted in the first grade at MAS Al-Manar Aceh Besar, involving 48 students as the sample divided into two classes, there are X-A and X-C classes. The respondens were students in X-A which consists of 31 as control class, and class X-C which consists of 17 as experimental class. This research used test and questionnaire to collect the data. The result of this research showed that Task-based Instruction increases students’ speaking skill. It was proved that based on the data from students t-score of experimental class and control class. It was shown that the students t-score in experimental class higher than control class, t-score of experimental class is 6.75 and control class is -7.39 as well as ttable at significant level of α = 0.05 was 1.74. Therefore, the experimental class Tscore > Ttable, and the control class Tscore < Ttable. In other words, Based on the students’ responses in questionnaire, they considered that Task- based Instruction was a suitable approach applied to increase students’ speaking skill.