THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BEHAVIORISM LEARNING MODEL IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS

Abstract

This research aims to answer two issues: 1) How is the improvement of students’ speaking skills using behaviourism method in the boarding house of International Class Program IAIN Salatiga; 2) how significant is the implementation of behaviourism learning model in improving students’ speaking skills in the boarding house of International Class Program IAIN Salatiga. By incorporating quantitative approach and pre-experimental model, this research acquires the number of improvement of students’ speaking skills and respectively finds the level of significance of the improvement. The research context is at the boarding house of International Class Program IAIN Salatiga involving 39 students of batch 2018 and 2019. The researchers compare the score of pre-test and post-test during approximately 3-month time of treatment in the purpose of improving speaking skills by using behaviourism method. Having analysed, the researchers find that students’ speaking skills have improved. In average, students of bath 2018 reach 11.37 points of improvement on their speaking skills, whilst students of batch 2019 achieve 24.30 points of improvement. In conclusion, the implementation of behaviourism learning model is relatively effective by calculating the score of N-Gain of the improvement of students’ speaking skills. Based on the table of N-Gain criteria, the score of N-Gain 0.36 for batch 2018 and 0.49 for batch 2019 belong to medium category of 0.3 <= g <= 0.7. By referring to the result of this research, the use of behaviourism learning model can be applied to support the improvement of students’ speaking skills when they life in dormitory or boarding schools.