@thesis{thesis, author={Erwin Pohan and Pamela Gloriez and Rona Elfiza}, title ={The Effect of Gouin and Series Method on Students’ Speaking Skill in Procedure Text at SMA Negeri 4 Tanjungpinang}, year={2019}, url={http://repositori.umrah.ac.id/1731/}, abstract={This research is aimed to see the effect of Gouin and Series Method on students' speaking skills in procedure text at Tanjungpinang at SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang. This study uses quasi-experiments. In this study involves 60 students which divided into 2 classes, 30 students in class XI MIPA 3 as experimental class and taught using the Gouin and Series method and 30 students in class XI MIPA 5 as control class and taught using Grammar Translation method. The research instrument used was an oral test. The researcher conducted a pre-test then applied the methods in both classes, Then, the researcher gave a post-test to see the increase of the mean score after the treatment. The results of the pre -test and posttest were analyzed using normality, homogeneity and h ypothesis testing. The results of this research showed that the class that was taught using the Gouin and Series Method has higher mean which is 80.53 while the mean score of control class is 74.80. It can be seen that the Gouin and Series method has significance effect on students' speaking ability in procedure text. Based on the data in the table, Sig. (2 tailed) is 0.004 and alpha is 0.05 (p