The Effectiveness of Using Information Gap on Second Grade Students’ Speaking Ability at Junior High School

Abstract

Speaking is one of the important language skills because it is used to express ideas, feeling, and thoughts. This research is focused on students’ speaking ability. Realizing that one of the purposes of language learning is to communicate, then speaking ability is very important to be mastered. Information Gap is a learning method that can be used to be utilized to speaking skill. The Information Gap can train students to dare to speak communicatively with their partner through various forms of activity. The objective of  this research is to examine whether information gap has significant effect on students’ speaking ability or not. This research was conducted at SMPN 2 Banyuwangi with two classes. Those classes are VIII G as control class and VIII H as experimental class. The Information Gap activity was done in experimental class whereas the control class was taught without the same treatment. The kind of this research is Quantitative Research approach (Nonequivalent Control Group). The collected data was analyzed by using Independent Sample T-Test. Based on the statistical calculation, it found that the siginificance value is < 0.000 which is lower than 0.05. It can be conclude that Ha (Hypothesis Alternative) is accepted which means that there is significant effect of using information gap on second grade student’s speaking ability at SMPN 2 Banyuwangi.