The Influence of 6 Minutes Bbc Radio Podcast towards Students’ Speaking Skills (A Quasi-Experimental Research in One Public School in Cikeusal)

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out the influence of 6 Minutes BBC Radio Podcast towards students’ speaking skills at the eleventh-grade at one of senior public schools in Cikeusal, Serang. This quantitative research used Quasi-Experimental design. This research used oral test as the instrument, consisting of pre-test and post- test. There were two classes involved in this research as the experimental class and control class. Each class consisted of 30 students. Hypothesis testing revealed that value of t-test was higher than the value of t-table (18.18 > 2.00). It indicated the null hypothesis was rejected but the alternative hypothesis was accepted. Based on the data analysis, Applying Podcast in the teaching and learning process of speaking revealed that there was significant influence of students speaking skills. In conclusion, Podcast could be an alternative media to help students improve their speaking skills in Teaching and Learning English.