Improving students’ speaking ability through numbered heads together strategy at grade XI SMA N 1 BatangAngkola

Maria, Maria (2017) Improving students’ speaking ability through numbered heads together strategy at grade XI SMA N 1 BatangAngkola. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was talking about improving students’ speaking ability at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Batang Angkola in the Academic Year of 2017/2018 through Numbered Heads Together Strategy. The research is done to solve the students’ problems in speaking ability. The purposes of this research were: to describe the students’ improvement in speaking ability through numbered heads together strategy at grade XI SMA N 1 Batang Angkola and to identify the factors which influence students’ speaking ability through numbered heads together strategy at grade XI SMA N 1 Batang Angkola. This research was categorized into action research that consisted of two cycles. This research used model proposed by Kemmis that involved four phases in a cycle of research: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The participants of this research were 23 students in grade XI IPA-1 of SMA Negeri 1 Batang Angkola. The techniques of data collection were test, observation and interview. Based on the result of the research, researcher found that the students’ speaking ability was improved. It was supported by the result in the cycle 1 was 66.09(21.74%) and in the cycle 2 was 77.91(73.91%). So, students’ improvement in speaking ability by using Numbered Heads Together strategy was high category. Then, some factors that influence speaking ability through numbered heads together strategy were most of students difficult to pronounce the words, students’ difficult to building words, students difficult to searching adequate words, students’ difficult to speaking English fluently and students difficult to understanding the words.

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