Improving students’ speaking skill through retelling story at grade VIII SMP N 2 Padang Bolak Tenggara Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara

Dasopang, Winda Hariani (2020) Improving students’ speaking skill through retelling story at grade VIII SMP N 2 Padang Bolak Tenggara Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is talking about improving students‟ speaking skill through retelling story at Grade VIII SMP N 2 Padang Bolak Tenggara Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara. Most of students had low motivation in speaking skill, students‟ speaking skill still poor students‟ had lack of vocabulary and grammatical mastery, students‟ still use their mother tongue and combined with Indonesian language when they studied English. The English teacher was seldom to apply technique in learning process. This research purposed to describe the students‟ speaking skill through retelling story at Grade VIII SMP N 2 Padang Bolak Tenggara Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara and to identify the factors which influence students‟ speaking skill through retelling story at Grade VIII SMP N 2 Padang Bolak Tenggara Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara. The research methodology that used in this research was classroom action research. In this research, the research used two cycles and each cycle consisted of two meetings. To find out the improvement of students‟ speaking skill the research used t-test to know the significance of hypothesis. In addition, the participants of this research were the class of VIII consist of 28 students and also there was collaboration with an English Teacher. Meanwhile, the data were derived among from speaking test, observation note sheet, and also interview. Based on the research result showed the improvement mean score of the students in the first cycle was 6.1 and the percentage was 25% and in the second cycle was 80 and the percentage 89.28%. It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Based on observation notes 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 skill had improved. It asserted that retelling story improved students‟ speaking skill

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