The Effect of Teams Games Tournament (TGT) Towards Students' Speaking Skills in 11th Grade at SMK YPSEI Palangka Raya

This research aimed to determine whether Teams Games Tournament (TGT) has an effect on students’ speaking skills of descriptive text. A preexperimental design with pre-test and post-test was employed in this research, conducted at SMK YPSEI Palangka Raya in eleventh-grade students with a sample of 16 chosen through total sampling. Speaking tests were used as an instrument to collect the required data. Additionally, a questionnaire was distributed to gather students’ perceptions of TGT. The data was analyzed using the Paired Sample ttest. The results showed that the average pre-test score of 59.75 increased to 68.75 in the post-test. Furthermore, in the paired sample t-test score, the calculated t-value (6.473) was greater than the critical t-value (1.753), leading to the rejection of the null hypothesis. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a positive effect of the TGT learning method on the speaking skills of eleventh-grade students at SMK YPSEI Palangka Raya. This was further supported by the positive responses from the questionnaire, which indicated that the TGT learning method helped students improve their speaking skills and boosted their confidence in speaking English.
Consequently, this method has been successful in improving students’ speaking skills.