Abstract:
This classroom action research aimed to know the students ability in speaking, how the Group
Discussion influences students’ speaking ability and the improvement of th estudents’ speaking
ability after applying Group Discussion Method. This research was conducted at SMAN 10
Pekanbaru. The population of this research was the secondary students of SMAN 10 Pekanbaru,
namely XI Science 2 which consisted of 36 students. In addition, there were two cycles in this
research and the writer used spoken test to see the improvement of the students’ speaking ability
on each cycle. Besides, the writer asked the collaborator to observe the process of the teaching
and learning process by using the observation sheets and field note prepared by the writer. This
research started on April 2013 and ended on May 2013. After accomplishing this research, the
writer concludes that The use of Groups Discussion could improve the students speaking ability.
It can be seen that in the pre-test there was no student who reached the minimum criteria of
achievment (KKM), then it increased become 1 person on the Good to Excellent level.
Furthermore, it inreased again into 17 students who reached the KKM (78). In addition, the use
of Group Discussion method can stimulate the students to be more active to follow the lesson. It
can be seen from the three meetings in each cycle, 98,61% of students in average were motivated
to follow the lesson well.
