THE EFFECT OF REINFORCEMENT TOWARD STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY. ( An Experiment at the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 7 Bengkulu Academic Year 2018/2019 )

Keywords: Reinforcement, Speaking Ability.
This Experimental Research was conducted to find out whether
reinforcement can improve the students’ speaking ability or not. The population of
the research was the tenth grade students of SMAN 7 Bengkulu. The simple random
sampling of the research was taken X MIPA 1 as the Experimental Group. The
collection data used pre-test and post-test to see the changes of the students’
speaking score. T-test used to see the significant difference between both tests. The
treatment is given to the students a set of praises as feedback in every students oral
response. After doing 6 times of treatment on Experimental Group, the result
indicates that reinforcement affected students speaking ability significantly. It was
found that -Tcount was -18,351 and -Ttable was -2,060. It means that -Ttable score was
greater than -Tcount. It could be concluded that the experiment was successful
because of reinforcement can improve the students’ speaking ability