Abstract

This research is aimed to investigate whether or not female EFL students' ability in speaking skill is better than male students. It deals with the hypothesis that mentions female students are better than male students in speaking skill. The method applied is the descriptive quantitative approach in which ten male and ten female students of the first grade of one of the high schools in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, become randomly the samples. The speaking test is done in order to collect the data and it is conducted to identify the male and female ability in English speaking skill, especially in the five aspects of speaking skill: pronunciation, grammar, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. The results show that the females actually dominate the higher scores in all aspects of speaking, however, the mean scores of male and female students are relatively similar, female students reach 68.5 while male students reach 63.3. The t-test is lower than t-table (-1.671.72), which means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study is rejected and the null hypothesis (Ho) is accepted. Therefore, it can be inferred that the first-grade female students of the high school under study have better performance in speaking skill than the male students, despite the difference is trivial.

Highlights

  • In a classroom, there are female and male students in almost all schools in Indonesia

  • The X-axis represents the number of male and female students, while the Y-axis represents the student mean scores which are obtained from the speaking test

  • It can be seen that none of the male students got 100

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Introduction

In a classroom, there are female and male students in almost all schools in Indonesia. They learn together in the same class, get the same lesson with the same teachers without discrimination. Males and females get the same knowledge and the same treatment from the teacher. Males and females are in unequal conditions, both of them are different. They are different psychically or mentally but they are different in their ability in English speaking. Swann (1992) states that verbal ability is typically dominated by girls, spatial ability is dominated by boys They are different psychically or mentally but they are different in their ability in English speaking. Swann (1992) states that verbal ability is typically dominated by girls, spatial ability is dominated by boys

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