Abstract:
This study aims to know the effect of the snowball throwing teaching method on the speaking skill of
eleventh-grade students at SMAN 25 Batam. Conducted from july to august 2024, the research involved 60
students divided into two groups: an experimental group taught using the snowball throwing method and a
control group taught using the role-play technique. Each group consisted of 30 students, selected using a simple
random sampling technique. Data were collected through the speaking tests, pre-tests and post-tests, and the
results were analyzed using a t-test. To ensure the experimental and control groups were drawn from
populations with the same variance, a homogeneity test (F-test) was applied. The findings indicated that the tcount value (3.59) was greater than the t-table value (2.048) at 5% significance level with 28 degrees of
freedom, leading to the acceptance of the alternative hypothesis (Ha) and the rejection of the null hypothesis
(Ho). These results indicates that the snowball throwing teaching method significantly improved the students'
speaking skills compared to the role-play technique used in the control group. In conclusion, the snowball
throwing teaching method proved to be an effective method for enhancing the speaking skill of eleventh-grade
students at SMAN 25 Batam.
