THE EFFECTS OF DIGITAL SPINNING WHEEL MEDIA ON STUDENTS' SPEAKING PERFORMANCE

Abstract

This research investigates the effects of Digital Spinning Wheel media on students' speaking performance at the seventh graders of MTs Wachid Hasyim Jagelempeni. The objectives of this research are to find out the effectiveness of Digital Spinning Wheel media on students' speaking performance and to determine whether Digital Spinning Wheel media gave significant differences on speaking performance between students' who are taught by using Digital Spinning Wheel media and those who are not. This research utilized a true-experimental design with two groups experimental and control. The population of this research is all seventh-grade students and the sample is 60 students of MTs Wachid Hasyim Jagalempeni. The instrument used in this research is speaking test about descriptive text focusing on describing people material. The result of post-test is 78.07 as mean of the experimental group and 68.90 as mean of the control group. The result of paired and independent t-test shows that the sig. (2-tailed) value is 0.000, which is lower than 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05). The findings of this research indicated that the Digital Spinning Wheel media was effective to improve students' speaking performance and there was a significant difference in speaking scores between students who are taught by using Digital Spinning Wheel media and those who are not taught using Digital Spinning Wheel media. In conclusion, Digital Spinning Wheel media has a positive effect to improve students' speaking performance. The results of this study are expected to enhance understanding of using Digital Spinning Wheel in classroom speaking instruction.