mproving The Students' Speaking Skill By Role Play ( A Classroom Action Research on the Eleventh Grade Students of Immersion Program 1 of the State Senior High School of Karangpandan Academic Year 2009/2010)

• Main Author: Sumpana, Sumpana (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2012.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/1/HALAMAN_DEPAN.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/2/CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/3/CHAPTER__II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/4/CHAPTER_III_-.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/5/CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/6/CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/8/BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/9/Lampiran.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/18989/10/MINI_THESIS.pdf
• Keywords: LB Theory and practice of education

The research is an action research. The objectives of this research are to improve the student's speaking skill, to check whether role play is effective learning technique, to know the strengths and weaknesses of role play. The problem of this research is the poor speaking competence of the eleventh grade students of Immersion Program 1 of the State Senior High School of Karangpandan in the Academic Year 2009/2010. This action research was conducted in grade XI of Immresion Program 1. The procedure of the research consists of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In collecting the data, the writer used non-observational technique and observational technique supported with a test. The non-observational technique consists of questionnaires and interviews. The observational technique consists of observation and field notes. In this research, the writer acted as the practitioner. The tests were in the form of pre-test conducted in the pre-research and post-tests conducted at the end of every cycle. These tests were conducted to know how well students speak English using role playing. The result of the reearch shows that the use role play improve the students' speaking competence, role play is an effective technique of learning, and there some strengths besides there are weaknesses. From the observation and supported with the writer's field notes, it can be seen that the students could speak well and improve their vocabularies and grammatical structure. Using role play in speaking class could increase the student's motivation in learning speaking. There is also an improvement of students' speaking competence. The improvement is reflected from the progress of the students' scores from pre-test to post-test. The students' average score was 59 in the pre-test conducted in the pre-research and it became 71 in the post-test conducted at the end of Cycle 3. Based on the research finding above, at the end of this research , the writer wants to propose some suggestion to English teachers. First, before conducting the instructional process especially in speaking class, choosing the most suitable way of improving the students' motivation in learning speaking is important because this is the key of the success in teaching-learning process. Besides, it is necessary to create an interesting and enjoyable atmosphere in the teaching-learning process in order to make the students easier in improving their speaking competence.