Improving speaking ability through task based language teaching method at Grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Barumun Tengah Kabupaten Padang Lawas

Pohan, Esriati (2018) Improving speaking ability through task based language teaching method at Grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Barumun Tengah Kabupaten Padang Lawas. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The research focused about improving speaking ability through task based language teaching method at grade VIII Students of SMP Negeri 1 Barumun Tengah Kabupaten Padang Lawas. The objective of research was to find whether teaching speaking through task based language teaching method can improve speaking ability at grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Barumun Tengah Kabupaten Padang Lawas. Some of students’ self-confidence was lack, and also students’ vocabulary is low. This research was conducted by classroom action research. Those were planning, action, observing, and reflecting. In addition, to solve the speaking problems, the researcher applied task based language teaching method. The participant of this research was students at grade VIII-2 of SMP Negeri 1 Barumun Tengah consisted of 18 students and researcher collaborator with an English teacher. This research used test, interview and observation as instrument of collecting data. Test was used to find out the score of students’ speaking mastery, then find out mean score and percentage as formulation. Next, interview and observation were used to know condition and to contribute the test. Based on the result of this research, the students’ speaking ability was improved with mean score test 1 in first cycle 69.56 and students passed the KKM 6 persons (33.34%), and the test 2 in the second cycle the mean score was 77.89 and the students passed the KKM 15 persons (83.34%). It can be concluded that the mean score in cycle 2 was higher than cycle 1. Finally, students’ speaking ability could be improved through task based language teaching method. So, it was recommended that task based language teaching method could be used in teaching learning speaking in classroom based on this research.

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