Utilizing Ted Video to Improve Students’ Public Speaking Skills for Academic Purposes

This study is to investigate to what extent the use of TED Talks video improves students’ public speaking skills for academic purposes. This research employs quantitative approach. To obtain the data, pre-experimental teaching was conducted. It occurred in One-Group Pre-test and Post-test, there was no control and experimental class. The participants of this study were thirteen students of English Department of the fifth semester in Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Bina Bangsa Getsempena (STKIP BBG) which is located at Tanggul Krueng Aceh street, Rukoh, Darussalam, Banda Aceh. This study conducted in four meetings. The first meeting was pre-test which is they were asked to make a speech in front of peers. In second and third meeting, they were asked to watch some TED Talks video. The last meetings, on post-test day, they were asked to make a speech in front of peers with preparation before. The result of pre-test and post-test were compared by using mean formula. Furthemore, the result show that teaching public speaking by exploring TED talks style give effect on the public speaking students. The mean score of pre-test was 56.3 and the mean of post-test was 66.7. It means that TED Talks play the important role in improving students public speaking which is increased 18,5% in the fifth year students of Department of English Language Education of Bina Bangsa Getsempena.