Improving Students’ the Speaking Skill of The Eighth Grade Students of MTs in Samarinda

Abstract

The students of the eighth grade at MTs.DDI Tani Aman Samarinda, class VIII faced some problems in the classroom that were found by the writer. From the observation, the writer found that students had low speaking skill, the students just spoke a few words when they were asked to introduce him/herself. Most of the students were too shy to take conversation, in other words, the students were having problem with their confidence, and the teacher still used monotonous and inappropriate teaching techniques might cause low motivation on the students in learning English which affect their ability in speaking. The design of this research is classroom action research (CAR). It focuses on the particular classroom. It was in two cycles to achieve the target of research that each cycle consisted of: planning, implementing, observation, and reflection. The instruments used to collect the data were observation checklist and test. The result of the research showed that there is a good improvement. It can be seen from the mean score of preliminary was 60.00, the mean score of cycle 1 was 67.72, and the mean score of cycle 2 was 75.85. These result shows that there is an improvement of the students’ speaking skill by using role play. In addition, the percentage of students who finish the target score also shows the progress from 29.63% in preliminary study, 37.93% in cycle 1, and increased to 81.48% in cycle 2.