Abstract :
The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was a
significant improvement on the eleventh grade students? speaking skill who were
taught by using Readers? Theatre strategy at SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Palembang
before and after the treatment, and to find out whether or not there was a
significant difference on the eleventh grade students? speaking skill between those
who were taught by using Readers? Theatre strategy and those who were not at
SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Palembang. This study used quasi-experimental design
using non equivalent pretest-posttest design. The population of this study was all
the eleventh grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Palembang which
consisted of 114 students. The sample of this study was taken by using purposive
sampling. The total number of the sample was 50 students. The sample were class
XI IPA 1 (control group) which consisted of 25 students and XI IPA 2
(experimental group) which consisted of 25 students. In collecting the data, the
writer used speaking test. The test was given twice to experimental and control
groups, as a pretest and posttest. To verify the hyphoteses, the data pretest and
posttest of the experimental and control groups were analyzed by using paired
sample t-test and independent sample t-test in SPSS 21. The findings showed that
the p-output from paired sample t-test was 0.000, which was lower than 0.05 and
the t-value 11.058, which was higher than t-table 2.064 (with df= 24). Then, p?output from independent sample t-test was 0.000, which was lower than 0.05 and
t-value 4.410, which was higher than t-table 2.011 (with df= 48). Therefore, it
could be concluded that teaching speaking skill by using Readers? Theatre
strategy had a significant improvement and significant difference on the students?
speaking skill. Therefore, the result of this study is expected to contribute
something for the development of the process of English teaching and learning
especially for the teaching of speaking skill.