134-144 THE EFFECT OF AUDIOBOOK ON SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING FLUENCY

Abstract

In this Globalization Era, English skills must be mastered by everyone. Whether its speaking, listening, reading, or writing. This research is focused on students’ speaking skills. Especially in the aspect of fluency. Audiobooks was used as the medium in this research. The aim of this study is to find out is there any effect of audiobook on students’ speaking fluency. The researcher used quantitative research methods and pre-experimental design applied in this study. The participant in this research is 11 students of sixth grades. The researcher used pre-test and post-test as the instrument to collected data. In conclusion, by using audiobooks shows that there is a positive effect on students, but due to the constraints and limitations of researchers and students, it is stated that there is no significant effect between speaking fluency and audiobooks through the results of data analysis using SPSS system version 22.