IMPLEMENTATION OF ICE BREAKING IN SPEAKING SKILL AT SMA KARTIKA XX-1 MAKASSAR

Abstract

This study aimed to find out whether the implementation of Ice Breaking improve the student speaking skill. This study focused on pre-experimental research one group pre-test and post-test. The population in this study were students of class X MIPA 4 SMA Kartika XX-1 Makassar and it consist of 20 students as the population. Data obtained from writing test pre-test, treatment, post-test, and questionnaire. The results of this study used inferential analysis of the t-test by SPSS 25 version which showed a significant effect on the students‟ mean score speaking skill between the pretest and post-test. The mean score of the students‟ speaking enhanced from 40.60 in the pretest to 72.60 in the posttest. The significance value calculated 0.000 was smaller than 0.05 (P-value = 0.000 < 0.05). Thus, it can be concluded that there are significant influences of using Ice Breaking method on students’ speaking skill.