@thesis{thesis,
		author={Azka  Naily Mufidatul},
		title ={IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH SELF
TALK STRATEGY (STS) AT THE 10th GRADE OF SMA N 3 PEMALANG},
		year={2023},
		url={http://eprints3.upgris.ac.id/id/eprint/335/},
		abstract={The objectives of this research were to find out the achievement of the students? 
speaking skills after applying the Self Talk Strategy (STS) and to find out the 
result of the students? speaking achievement taught before and after implementing 
Self Talk Strategy (STS) at the 10th grade of SMA Negeri 3 Pemalang. This 
research used a quantitative and pre-experimental method with one group pre-test 
and post-test design. The 10th grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Pemalang served 
as the population in this study, and class X.5, which included 34 students, served 
as the sample. A spoken test with pre-test and post-test served as the research 
instrument. The result of the data indicated that there were significant differences 
between the students? pre-test and post-test. The post-test means score (12.82) for 
speaking students was higher than the pre-test score (10.06). Moreover, the t-score 
is regarded as less than the t-table at a significance level of 0.05%. The alternative 
hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It 
indicates that there was a significant shift in the way the students spoke in class 
before and after using the self-talk strategy. The researcher concluded that the 
application of the Self-Talk Strategy (STS) improved the students' speaking 
abilities based on the findings and discussion of the research.
Keywords: Speaking, Self-Talk Strategy, Accuracy Fluency}
		}