AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH SHORT CONVERSATION AT MAN 2 TANAH DATAR
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The purpose of this research is to describe the second year students’ speaking ability Through short conversation at MAN 2 Tanah datar. The researcher wanted to describe the students’ speaking ability in using vocabulary, grammar, content, fluency, and pronunciation. The design of this research is descriptive research. The population of this research is the second year students at MAN 2 Tanah datar. Cluster random Sampling Technique is used in this research and the number of samples is 34 students. The instrument for collecting the data in this research is speaking test that required students to make a dialogue about agreement and disagreement, suggestion and offer, direction, invitation, and telephone communication. To make the test reliable the researcher used the inter-rater technique. It was supported by the fact that the coefficient correlation is 0.93. The result of this research showed that the the second year students’ speaking ability through short conversation at MAN 2 Tanah datar was high. Keywords: Speaking, short conversation.Referensi
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