"TELL-ME-WHAT-YOU-SEE" STRATEGY IN DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the "Tell Me What You See" strategy in developing student speaking skills. The strategy is based on the concept of visual learning, which encourages students to observe and describe objects or images orally. The main objectives are to enhance students' ability to organize their thoughts, express ideas, and improve their confidence in speaking through the "Tell Me What You See" strategy among the 10th-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Lempuing OKI. The research method utilized a pre-experimental design in the form of a one-group pretest-posttest design. The population of this study comprised all 10th-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Lempuing OKI, with a total of 191 students for the academic year 2022/2023. Convenience non-random sampling was employed by the researcher to obtain a sample of X.3, consisting of 32 students. In this study, the researcher employed an oral test to collect data and analyzed the data using an appropriate t-test. Based on the research findings, it was found that the average score in the posttest was higher than the average score in the pretest. The average posttest score of the students was 54.37, while the average pretest score was 42.03. Furthermore, the result of the t-test was 9.71, which was higher than the critical value (1.697) at a significance level of 0.05%. This implies that the "Tell Me What You See" strategy is significantly effective in developing speaking skills among the 10th-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Lempuing OKI.