The Use of Metacognitive Strategy to Improve Students Speaking Ability at Eight Grade SMPN 2 Langsa

This research investigated the improvement of students’ speaking ability by using metacognitive strategy at eighth grade of SMPN 2 Langsa. The interest in doing this research came to the writer when there were some issues about students who was not active to speaking English in the English classroom activity. The kind of this research is classroom action research which was conducted in two cycle. The subject of this research is VIII-4 grade SMPN 2 Langsa in academic year 2015-2016 with total number is 30 students which had taken by using purposive sampling technique. The technique of collecting data were by using test and observation. The data of observation were analyzed qualitatively by observing teaching and learning process. meanwhile the data of test were analyze quantitavely through assessing students’ speaking performance. The result of this research showed that the use of metacognitive strategy was successfull to improve students speaking ability. Based on the qualitative data, the use of classroom activities helped the students to be more familiar with English. It helped the students to increase all of aspect of speaking skill. Meanwhile, the use of various media could attract their attention during the class. Based on the quantitative data, the students’ average scores for the speaking skill improved. The average in pre-test was 64.13. In the first cycle, the students’ average score was 69.6 and in the second cycle students got 77.4. To know the significance of improvement in the result of first and second cycle, it used ttes and the computation of tcount was 6.07 and the calculation of ttable was 2,04. It means the result is tcount > ttable (6,07 > 2,04) so H1 hypothesis of this research is accepted.