Author: Rotua Hutasoit, Drs. Bonari Tambunan

Abstract: This research deals with the effect of Ice Breaking Technique in Teaching Speaking. The objective of the study was to find out whether Ice Breaking Technique significantly affect in teaching speaking. The population of the study was the tenth grade students of SMK Dharma Bhakti Siborongborong who were registered in academic year 2018/2019. The data were obtained from 56 students as samples; the researcher took the sample from 224 students of tenth grade as the population. The students were devided into two groups namely experimental group and control group. The experimental group was taught by using Ice Breaking Technique while control group was taught without Ice Breaking Technique. The instrument used in collecting data were speaking test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. Having calculated the data it was found that t –test was higher than t- table (7, 70 >2.005) with the degree of freedom (df) 54 (28+28-2) with the t- table is 2,005 and the calculate value was 5.38. Therefore, the null hyphotesis (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It can be concluded that Ice Breaking Technique significantly affect in teaching speaking.

Keywords: Ice Breaking, Teaching Speaking, Experimental Research.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.3.5.2