The Effect of Using Duet Conversation Challenge Tiktok in Improving Students’ Speaking Skill

Purpose - The objective of this research is to find out the extent of duet conversation challenges TikTok in improving speaking skills at senior high students. This research reveal how duet conversation challenges TikTok affect students performance and students speaking competence. Design/methodology/approach - Research design utilizes by the Researcher is pre-experimental research design. This research consists of pre-test, treatment and post test. The post-test is administered to see the achievement compared to the pre-test to identify whether treatment is successful. Senior high students were chosen as the subject since the students at this age are eager to use Tiktok in their daily life. Purposive sample was carried out to involve those students who actively used Tiktok application. The data was analyzed by using Paired-Samples T Test to proves the hypothesis. Findings/results – Based on the findings of the experimental results, the use of duet conversation challenge TikTok is an effective technique for students in improving their English-speaking ability. The pre-test score is 67.84 and the post-test is 79.36. This means that there is an improvement of 11.52 points, or approximately 16.98%, between the pretest and posttest scores. Then, the posttest average score is higher than the pretest. The sig value of the paired sample t-test is 0.000, this value is lower than 0.05 (0.000< 0.05). It was concluded that the statistical hypothesis: the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was maintained and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. Originality/value - The use of duet conversation challenge TikTok significantly improves students' English-speaking skills. Paper type – Research paper