INSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE TECHNIQUE: IS IT EFFECTIVE TO TEACH SPEAKING?

Abstract

There are many kinds of teaching techniques developed these days but it needs to know whether or not it is applicable to be used to teach in certain education atmosphere especially in vocational high school (SMK). Moreover, most of the English materials taught in SMK tend to practical term in accordance with the competencies they have. The researcher found that  the  students  in  SMK  Ma’arif  4  Kebumen  got  problem  in  speaking,  especially  in arranging  words  to  be  spoken.  In  this  case,  he  wants  to  apply  Inside-Outside  Circle Technique to help the students overcome their problem. Furthermore, statistically he also wants to know whether the use of IOC Technique effective or not to teach speaking. By applying pre-test post-test quasi experimental design and employing X TKRO B as experimental group and X TKRO A as control group, the researcher did a series of research from pre-test, giving them a number of treatment, and post-test. By using oral test as its instrument, the researcher got the data and from the data, it is known that the mean score of experimental group is better than control group (83.25 > 76.75). Furthermore, after having statistical  computation,  it  is  known  that  z  value is  higher  than  z  table (2.645  >  1.96). Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of Inside Outside Circle in teaching speaking skill at the tenth grade students of SMK Ma’arif 4 Kebumen is effective.

Keywords: Inside-Outside Circle, teaching technique, speaking skill