Improving students’ speaking ability by using drama technique at grade XI IPA SMA N 1 Angkola Selatan Kabupaten Tapanuli Selatan

Pasaribu, Elpida Nora (2018) Improving students’ speaking ability by using drama technique at grade XI IPA SMA N 1 Angkola Selatan Kabupaten Tapanuli Selatan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research talked about improving students’ speaking ability by using drama techniqueat at grade XI IPA SMA N1 Angkola Selatan Kabupaten Tapanuli Selatan. Most of students had low motivation in speaking skill, students’ speaking ability still poor, students’ had lack of vocabulary and grammatical mastery, students’ still use their mother tongue and combined with Indonesian language. This research purposed to describe the students’ speaking ability and to identify the factors which influence students’ speaking ability by using drama technique at Grade XI IPA SMA N1 Angkola Selatan Kabupaten Tapanuli Selatan. The research methodology that used in this research was Classroom Action Research, by implementing the Hopskin design which consisted of four steps. They planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In this research, the researcher used two cycles and each cycle consisted of two meetings.To find out the improvement of students’ speaking ability the researcher used t-test to know the significance of hypothesis.In addition, the participants of this research were the class of XI IPA 1 consisted of 40 students and also there was collaboration with an English Teacher. Meanwhile, the data were derived among from speaking tests, observation note sheet, and also interview. Based on the research result showed the improvement mean score of the students in the first cycle was 53.50 (10%) and in the second cycle was 80.40 (85%). In addition, it can be seen from test of significance of students’ improvement showed to is bigger than ttable: 18.94 >2.042.It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Then the result of t-test calculation is bigger than t-table with N = 39 is 2.042. So, this hypothesis is accepted. Moreover, based on observation note sheet stated that the students got improvement and the students were more active and interested in learning process. Related to the interview result, it could be known that students’ speaking ability had improved. It asserted that students’ speaking ability improve by using Drama Technique.

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