Improving Students’ Motivation in Speaking by Using Snowball Throwing at Seventh Grade of SMP Negeri 5 Langsa

The objective of this research is to improve students’ motivation by using Snowball Throwing in learning speaking. The subject of the research is students in class VII-4 of SMP Negeri 5 Langsa which is consisted of twenty six students, in this study the writer use purposive sampling technique to get the samples. The writer conducts this research is Classroom Action Research. The data is obtained by using three instruments those are observation, test and questionnaire. The test is devided of pre-test and post-test. The result of this research states that Snowball Throwing can improve students’ motivation in learning speaking. It is based on the result data that show that there are differences score among the students’ score of pre-test before doing the action and after doing the action of post test in each cycle. Thepost-test in cycle I showed thatthe mean of students’ score is 63,07 and in the post test of cycle II the mean of students’ score become 70. It means that the score has passed the Minimum Completeness Criteria (KKM) that have been determined by the school. In line with the result of the research, it is essential that the teacher should be able to performas an innovator of learning and should use a variety of techniques to motivate students’ speaking English. The students also should more improve their motivation and interested to English, especially speaking.