Nazilah, Shofiya Hikmatun (2024) The Effectiveness Of Duolingo Application In Teaching Speaking Skill For The Seventh Grade Students Of SMP Al Falah Pasir Sakti. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The focus of this research is to determine the effectiveness of the Duolingo app in teaching students at SMP Al Falah Pasir Sakti speaking skills. Researcher conducted a study to find out whether the Duolingo application is effective as an instrument of learning and learning activities.

The researcher used quantitative approaches in her research and quasi experiment research designs. The sample in this study was 46 students of SMP Al Falah Pasir Sakti would be separated into two categories: experiment and control. Researcher use pre-tests, post-tests, observations, and documentation to collect the data.

The results of this study demonstrated that it is possible to conclude that the student score in the experiment class, which was taught using the Duolingo application, is greater than the score in the control class. Based on the mean of the score both experiment class and control class, it showed that there is a significant increase of the score after the treatment was given especially the experiment class. Besides, the T-Test showed that there are no significant differences between experiment class and control class. It can be seen on the critical value of t-test. The T-test resulted in a degree of freedom (df) of 44, a critical value derived using a degree of significance of 5% of 1.680 (t-table), and a t-observe of 1.042.

Keyword: Duolingo Application, Quantitative Quasi-Experiment Method, Speaking Skill

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