Key words: Prezi, PowerPoint, and Creativity
This research aims at finding out whether: (1) Prezi is more effective than PowerPoint to teach speaking; (2) The students having high creativity have better speaking skill than those having low creativity; and (3) There is an interaction between teaching media and creativity in teaching speaking.
This research was carried out at IAIN Salatiga in the academic year of 2015/2016. The population was the second semester students of English Education Department. There were six classes in English Education Department of IAIN Salatiga who joined Speaking in Professional Contexts Class. In this research, the researcher used cluster random sampling. The researcher took two classes for experimental class (TBI D) and control class (TBI F). Each class was divided into two groups (the students having high and low creativity). The research instruments consist of students’ creativity test and a speaking test. The creativity test and speaking test were readable after they were tried out in class TBI D of English Education Department of IAIN Salatiga. The data were the result of speaking test and analyzed by multifactor analysis of variance 2 x 2 (ANOVA).
The findings of the research show that: (1) Prezi is more effective than PowerPoint for teaching speaking to the students of second semester of English Education Department of IAIN Salatiga in the academic year of 2015/2016; (2) The students who have high creativity have better speaking skill than those having low creativity in the second semester of English Education Department of IAIN Salatiga in the academic year of 2015/2016; and (3) There is no interaction between teaching media and creativity in teaching speaking skill to the second semester of English Education Department of IAIN Salatiga in the academic year of 2015/2016.
Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that: (1) Prezi is an effective teaching media to teach speaking in second semester of English Education Department of IAIN Salatiga in the academic year of 2015/2016, and (2) It is suggested to the English Teacher to apply Prezi in teaching speaking. Prezi is suitable for both students who have high and low creativity because it is designed in a variety of formats that helps students to process information that they have collected then organize their ideas.