Improving students’ speaking ability through problem solving technique at the 1st group 2nd semester students of Ma’had Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Hulu, Safrina (2017) Improving students’ speaking ability through problem solving technique at the 1st group 2nd semester students of Ma’had Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is done to solve students’ problems in speaking ability. The purpose of this research is; to describe the improvement of the students’ ability by using Problem Solving Technique at the 1st Group 2nd Semester Students of Ma’had Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan and to identify the factors which influence students’ speaking ability by using Problem Solving Technique at the 1st Group 2nd Semester Students of Ma’had Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Research methodology that is used in this research is classroom action research by implementing the Kemis and Robin design which consists of four steps. Those are planning, action, observation, and reflecting. To solve the students’ problems in speaking the researcher applies problem solving technique. The researcher use two cycles, every cycle consists of two meetings. Moreover, the participants of this research are the 1st group 2nd semester students of ma’had Jami’ah IAIN Padangsidimpuan (27 students). Meanwhile, the data is derived among from speaking tests, observation, and interview. Based on the research result in cycle 1 and cycle 2, it shows the improvement of students’ mean score and students’ percentage. Students’ score in cycle 1 is 64.89 (25.92%) and students’ score in cycle 2 is 79.85 (92.59%). So, students’ improvement in speaking ability by using Problem Solving Technique is very good category (very high). The researcher used t-test for small samples less than 30 students. Students’ problem in accent is difficult in pronouncing the word. Problems in grammar are in building words and their grammatical patterns are inaccurate. Problem in vocabulary is difficult in searching adequate words. Problem in fluency that students disjoin sentences and restricted in length, slower caused by word searching, halting and fragmentary were frequently occurred while producing some difficult words to pronunciation. Problem in comprehension is researcher difficult to understand words even it has been a familiar word. Problem in accent is solved by motivating them to be diligent in training their pronunciation. Problems in grammars are solved by giving more explanation to the students. Problem in vocabulary is solved by giving some vocabularies to the students. Problem in fluency is solved by motivating the students. Problem in comprehension is solved by improving researcher’s self to comprehend their retelling of result discussion.

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