Improving students’ speaking ability through songs at grade XI SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan

Hijrah, Siti (2013) Improving students’ speaking ability through songs at grade XI SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study is talking about improving students’ speaking ability trough songs at grade XI SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. Most of students cannot speak English well. Students had not desire to speak, students less motivation in learning English and English teachers don’t have appropriate method and media in teaching learning. So, the researcher used English songs to made the students interest in speaking English well. Solving those problem, researcher conducted classroom action research by using English songs to improve students’ speaking ability. The researcher used two cycles, each cycles consist of two meetings. The research purposed to describe the students’ speaking ability by collecting the data through testing and observation. The researcher found out that the students’ score was increased from the first cycles to the second cycles. The first meeting the mean of the students’ score was 51.66 and the percentage 11.11%. In second meeting the mean of the students’ score was 60.55 and the percentage 27.77%. And then, in third meeting the mean of the students’ score was 65.41 and the percentage 33.33%. The last meeting the mean of the students’ score was 73.47 and the percentage 86.11%. In conclude, could show from improvement students in first cycles last meeting there were 60.55 (27.77%), in second cycles the last meeting there were 73.47 (86.11%). So, it can be said that from using songs could improve students’ speaking ability at grade XI SMK Swasta Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan.

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