Improving students' speaking ability through action learning strategy at Grade X Students of SMK 1 Batang Angkola

Pane, Muhammad Yzul Hermawan (2023) Improving students' speaking ability through action learning strategy at Grade X Students of SMK 1 Batang Angkola. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The students at X grade in SMK N 1 Batang Angkola face many problems in speaking. The speaking problem of students come from several factors, those are: the lack of motivation, the lack of vocabulary and students’ do not have self confidence and mental to speak English. The objectives of this research were to improve the students’ speaking skill, to know whether action learning strategy can improve students’ speaking ability at grade X in SMK 1 Batang Angkola or not and to know how is action learning strategy improve students’ speaking ability at grade X in SMK 1 Batang Angkola. The problem of this research was the poor speaking competence at grade X SMK 1 Batang Angkola. The research was a classroom action research, where it consisted of two cycles in applying this research. This action research was conducted in grade X, exactly in X class. The procedure of the research consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In collecting the data, the writer used observational technique supported with a test and interview. In this research, the writer acted as the practitioner. These tests were conducted to know how was students ability in speaking using action learning strategy. The result of the research showed that the used of action learning strategy can improve the students’ speaking skill, action learning strategy was an effective technique of learning, and there some strengths besides there were 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. The result showed that using action learning strategy in speaking class could increase the student’s ability in learning speaking. There was also the improvement of students’ speaking skill at X grade of SMK 1 Batang Angkola. The improvement was reflected from the progress of the students’ scores from students speaking test in pretest, cycle I and in cycle II. The students’ mean score of speaking test in pretest was 50.14. the students mean score in cycle I was 54.26 and the mean score of students speaking test in cycle II was 64.11, the improvement of mean score of speaking test from pretest to students speaking test in cycle II was 13.97 point. This improvement was categorized good.

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