Applying Small Group Discussion To Improve Students' Engglish Speaking at Zawiyah English Club

This study aims at finding out the whether small group discussion model improve students’ speaking skills at Zawiyah English Club or not. The type of the study was experimental research with quantitative approach. The sample was 20 members of Zawiyah English Club at IAIN Langsa. The instrument used test, including pretest and posttest. The finding showed that Small Group Discussion improve the students’ speaking skill. This is proven by significant difference at results between those who learn speaking by using small group discussion and those who learn by using conventional method. Based on the data analysis, to was higher than ttable 2.02 < 7.39 > 2.70. It indicated that the alternative hyphotesis (Ha) was accepted and null hyphothesis (H0) was rejected. Thus, it can be concluded that Small Group Discussion effects on the students’ speaking ability and develops their speaking skill.