Improving students’ self-confidence in speaking ability through simulation technique at grade x SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan

Sulastri, Sulastri (2013) Improving students’ self-confidence in speaking ability through simulation technique at grade x SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study is talking about improving students’ self-confidence in speaking ability through simulation technique at SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. Most of students do not have bravery in speaking ability. Many students feel that speaking is difficult. First, speaking happen in real time. Second, speaking cannot be edited and revised. Furthermore, this is caused students are afraid to do mistakes, feel tremble, tight, and worry in speaking, have high anxiety, do not practice it every day, and do not have self-confidence. The objective of this research is the improvement students’ self-confidence in speaking ability at grade X SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan. To solve the problem the researcher conducted classroom action research, by implementing simulation technique. The researcher applied three test and two cycles in this research. The participant of this research was one class consists of 26 students. The instruments for collecting the data the researcher used spoken test, observation sheet and interview. Based on the research result, showed the self-confidence mean score of the students. The first test was 5.0%, the first cycle was 6.25%, the second test was 6.57%, the second cycle was 7.84%, and the third test was 8.53%. Therefore, the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. the percentages of cycles can be seen that the first cycle was 69.44%, and the second cycle was 87.11%. The data from observation sheet indicated that the students got improvement. It indicated that the application of simulation technique improved students’ self-confidence in speaking ability.

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