THE INFLUENCE OF USING CCU (CROSS CULTURE UNDERSTANDING) MATERIAL TO THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

Abstract

This research is carried out in order to find out  how far the influence of using CCU material to the students’ speaking ability.  The researcher had outlined the problem in this research that focused on speaking abilities. It is related on the problem identification that the students speaking ability is bad, they get the difficulties to speak well and they are also not interested about the learning method in the class. They always feel bored in speaking subject. In this research the writer takes all the eleventh grade students as the object of this research, they are 90 students. For getting the needed data, the writer applies the library and field research. The library research is applied based on the needs of the books as the sources of theories and informations, and the field research is applied based on the need of data from the field, in this case from the SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. And as the instrument for collecting the data the writer uses the written test. After getting the data, the next step which is done by the writer is analyzing it by using the statistical analysis. The statistical formulation which is used in this research is the formulation of Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (r_XY). After analyzing the data, it has been got that the value of r_XY is 0.79. By consulting this value to the table of interpretation given before, it is known that it can be categorized into the high correlation.The conclusion of the research is Cross Culture Understanding Materials is one of the material can be used in learning speaking.