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The objective of this research is to find out the effect of TikTok application towards students’ speaking skills at the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Songgom. The researcher hypothesis there is positive effect of TikTok Application towards student speaking skills at SMK N 1 Songgom.


The researcher used true experimental methode. The population of this research is tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Songgom which total 216 students. The researcher uses simple random sampling. The total of sampleos 72 students, which consist of 36 students from X TJKT 2 as experimental class and 36 students from X TJKT 3 as control class.


The researcher used paired T-test to determine if the test result were statistically significant or not. The results of the test showed that the experimental group had improved their speaking skills more than the control group. It can be concluded that the TikTok application is effective in increasing students speaking skills. Therefore, the result of the Independent sample T-test showed that the sig (2-tailed) value was 0.000 which is less than 0.05. The students pretest of experimental class was score 58.67, while the control class had a score 75.67. Than the post test score experimental class was 55.22 and control class was score 72.78. Which means that the post test score was higher than the pretest. So it can be concluded that the application of the TikTok has a positive effect on students  speaking skills.

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TikTok Application Speaking Skills

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