The Comparison between Male and Female Eighth Graders’ Speaking Achievement at Junior High School NURIS Jember in The 2019/2020 Academic Year

Khotami, Kamila (2019) The Comparison between Male and Female Eighth Graders’ Speaking Achievement at Junior High School NURIS Jember in The 2019/2020 Academic Year. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Speaking becomes an important skill because speaking is a skill that is used to communicate orally. Some theories explained that male and female have different function of brain that affect their language achievement, especially speaking. This study, hence, investigates male and female students’ speaking achievement. Owing to some theories about male and female students who were learning English language especially speaking, the researcher formulated three research questions, as follows: how is the male eighth graders’ speaking achievement at Junior High School Nuris Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year, how is the female eighth graders’ speaking achievement at Junior High School Nuris Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year, and is there any difference between male and female eighth graders’ speaking achievement at Junior High School Nuris Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year. Referring to the research questions, this research was intended to find out male eighth graders’ speaking achievement, female eighth graders’ speaking achievement and the differences between male and female eighth graders’ speaking achievement. This research is quantitative study. The research design is a comparison research. It involved two independent variables which are male and female students from the same class. The population of this research was all second grades of Junior high school Nuris Jember. Then, the sample of this research was taken from the eight E class which consists of 30 students. The instrument of collecting data was a test, and the data obtained in this research was analysed using Mann Whitney test. After analysing the data, the researcher concluded that; (1) The speaking achievement’s mean score of male eighth graders at Junior High School Nuris Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year was 55.5 which was under the minimum mastery criteria or kriteria ketuntasan minimal (KKM) which is 75 for English lesson; (2) The speaking achievement’s mean score of female eighth graders at Junior High School Nuris Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year was 70.3 which was under the KKM; (3) There was a significant difference between male and female eighth graders’ speaking achievement at Junior High School Nuris Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year and the Null hypothesis (H0) is rejected.

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