Keywords: Multimedia Based Presentation, Speaking Ability
Multimedia Based Presentation is a part of technology that facilitate
students and teachers to interact more effectively. It creates an enjoyable
classroom environment and attract students’ interest and motivation to be
involved during the learning process. The purpose of this research is to know the
significant effect of Multimedia Based Presentation towards students’ speaking
ability at the first-grade students of SMA Negeri 8 Pekanbaru.
This research was true-experimental research. They were experimental
class and control class. The sample of this research consisted of 32 students for
experimental class and 30 students for control class at the first-grade students of
SMA Negeri 8 Pekanbaru. The instrument of this research was oral test of
recounting the recount text. In this research, the test consisted four components;
pronunciation, grammar, fluency and vocabulary in pre-test and post-test. The
effectiveness of Multimedia Based Presentation can be seen from improving of
students’ speaking ability by comparing pre-test, post-test of experimental class
and pre-test, post-test of control class.
The researcher analyzed the data and did hypothesis test, the researcher
found the result that 12.131 > ttable at level of significant 5% is 2.042. The results
show that alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted while the null hypothesis (H0) is
rejected. Thus, it can be concluded that there was significant effect by using
Multimedia Based Presentation towards students’ speaking ability at the firstgrade
students of SMA Negeri 8 Pekanbaru
