Effect of Group Work Strategy to the Speaking Achievement of Second Semester Students of English Study Program at University of HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar

Abstract

This experimental research is designed to find the effect of applying group work strategy on students’ achievement in speaking. Group can be established in a number of different ways. Sometimes the students are simply asked to work with friends, other time the teacher may be placed in randomly selected groups. But sometimes, groups are formed according to specific strength of individuals.The population of this research was 240 undergraduate students of first semesterat English Study Program of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Nommensen HKBP University in Pematangsiantar Municipality.The sample of this research was randomly chosen based on their classes. Students of Group Cwas as experimental group; and the control group was students of group B. Each of group consists of 35 students. To collect the data, test of speakingisadministered. Using t-test in analyzing data, it is found that t-value (2,48) is higher
than t-table (1,667) at level of significant 5%. This means that using group work strategy is Grammar,effective to develop students’ speaking achievement.