THE EFFECT OF THE ENGLISH CLUB PROGRAM TOWARD THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT SMPN 18 PADANG
Abstrak
This research was aimed to describe the effect of English club toward students’ speaking ability at SMPN 18 Padang. In this study the writer applied the descriptive research design. The population of this study was 185 students of the second grade at SMP N 18 Padang. The writer chose purposive sampling technique. This study focused on English club members and the members are 9 students. The result of this study showed that English club program does not affect second grade students’ speaking ability at SMPN 18 Padang. From the result of speaking test, there were 7 students who had moderate speaking ability, 1 student had high speaking ability and 1 student had low speaking ability. From the result of questionnaire, it showed that 1 student had high participation in English club, 6 students had moderate participation in English club and 1 student had low participation in English club. The writer concluded that English club program does not influence second grade students’ speaking ability at SMPN 18 Padang. The purpose of the students join to English club program is to improve speaking ability, to improve their knowledge of English and to increase their English grade. Students said that English club program helped them to be more confident. It was suggested to English teachers to improve students’ speaking ability, by giving more practice and drill the speaking skill whether inside or outside the classroms. There should be a study about factors students’ speaking ability beside other factors.
Keyword: speaking, ability, effect, English club