The Use of Discussion Task in Teaching Spoken Text of Analytical Exposition

This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using discussion tasks in teaching spoken text of analytical ex- position to eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Pontianak. In this research, a pre-experimental design was used by the researcher. The researcher administered pre-test and post-test to measure the effectiveness of using discussion task in teaching spoken text of analytical exposition text. The sample of this research consisted of 20 students from eleventh grade students of XI MIPA 3 in SMAN 1 Pontianak. The researcher used the measurement technique to collect the da- ta and the tool of data collecting was in the form of an oral performance test. By doing this research, the researcher expected that the result from computation of t-test would be higher than t-table, the alternative of hypothesis (Ha) would be accepted, and the Effect Size (ES) from this research would be categorized as strong effect which can be in- dicated more than 1.00. The researcher predicted that the use of discussion task can be effective and give a strong ef- fect in teaching spoken text of analytical exposition to the students, especially to eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Pontianak.