Last modified: 2021-08-15
Abstract
Speaking skill is one of the four language skills that should be mastered by, in this case, students to be able to communicate with theirsurroundings. However, there are some difficulties for teachers to ask or to stimulatestudents to speak in English. In addition, in this pandemic covid-19 also has the barriers for the students to get the knowledge face to face. It isvery important for English teachers to use interesting media especially the ones that give context to the students in the learning process such as videos and story jumper. This study aims to find out the effectiveness of using video and story jumper to improve students' speaking abilityand to investigate the most improved aspect of speaking by video and story jumper. The study was conducted in some of students in Lambung Mangkurat University. A quasi-experimentaldesign was employed for this study. The study involved four classes of second semester which were divided into two groups; experimental group and control group. Data were collected through pretest and posttest and the research sample was selected by the cluster random technique. The data were analyzed by using Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) 16 for Windows. The calculation result of independent t-test on post-test scores showed that t-value -0.242 was lower than t-table 1.647 (N: 53 and Critical Value: 0.05) which means the video and story jumper treatment had improved the students' speaking ability.