The Effect of Reinforcement Toward Students’ Speaking Ability

Journal Title: Journal of English Education and Teaching - Year 2019, Vol 3, Issue 3

Abstract

This Experimental Research was conducted to find out whether the reinforcement given by the teacher while teaching speaking can improve the students’ speaking ability or not. The population of the research were the tenth grade students of SMAN 7 Bengkulu. Based on simple random sampling technique, X MIPA 1 was taken as the sample and became the experimental group. The data collected from the scores of students’ speaking administered as pretest and posttest. The treatment was given to the students in the form of a set of praises as feedback to each student’s oral responses. After doing 6 times of treatment on Experimental Group, the result indicated that the reinforcement affected students speaking ability significantly. In other words, the reinforcement given by the teacher could improve the students’ speaking ability.

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Herdianti Kusumawardhani, Syafrizal Sabaruddin, Ildi Kurniawan

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  • EP ID EP636311
  • DOI 10.33369/jeet.3.3.299-310
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Herdianti Kusumawardhani, Syafrizal Sabaruddin, Ildi Kurniawan (2019). The Effect of Reinforcement Toward Students’ Speaking Ability. Journal of English Education and Teaching, 3(3), 299-310. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-636311