THE EFFECT OF ELICITATION TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT

This study aims at discovering the effect of applying Elicitation technique on students’ speaking achievement. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this research was the twelfth graders of SMA YPI AMIR HAMZAH Medan. The samples of the research were two classes which consisted of experimental and control group which were chosen by using cluster sampling technique. Fourteen students were taken as the samples in each class. The experimental group applied Elicitation as learning technique , while the control group applied Demonstration Learning as learning technique. After analyzing the data, it was found that the value of ttable , for the degree of freedom (df) 26 at the level significance 0.05 was . The result of data analysis shows that tobs was 4.341. It means tobs was higher than ttable (4.341 ).. The result of computing the data analysis showed that tobs (Ma) was 6.0082. It means that tobs (Ma) was higher than ttable (4.341 ).The result of this study showed that Elicitation technique significantly affected the students’ speaking achievement