THE EFFECT OF TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (TPR) TEACHING METHOD TOWARDS STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

The research aims to know the effect of total physical response teaching method towards students’ speaking skill, the implementation of the teaching method to senior high school students and the students’ responds to the teaching method. The research was conducted to the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Purwadadi in academic year 2020/2021 using the quasi experimental research design. The research was consisted of four meetings including pretest, posttest, treatment and questionnaire distribution. The result of the research was analyzed using SPSS 21 program which show the significance difference between the students who taught by TPR and the students who taught by the conventional teaching method. The result of independent sample T-test was 0.007 which is less than 0.05, it means that H₀ is rejected and H_a is accepted. The result of independent sample T-test was supported by the result of questionnaire and field notes that show the positive improvements. In conclusion, the result of the research indicate that the effect of total physical response teaching method could improve the students’ speaking skill and the result of questionnaire indicate that students felt that learning to speak was easier using gestures