Improving students’ speaking ability by using guessing games at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Minarti, Minarti (2015) Improving students’ speaking ability by using guessing games at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was about solving the students’ problems in speaking ability at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Most of students had low achievement in speaking ability, students derived from different ethnics, students were afraid to speak in front of the class and the English teacher was seldom implement technique in teaching learning process. The purposes of this research was to describe the result improving students’ speaking ability and to identify the factors which influence students’ speaking ability by using guessing games technique at grade VII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The method used in this research was classroom action research, by implementing the Kemmis design which consisted of identification problems and did the four steps. Those were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In this research, the researcher used two speaking tests and two cycles. Moreover, the participants of this research were the class of VII-10 consists of 26 students and also there was collaboration with an English teacher. Meanwhile, the data were derived among from speaking tests, observation notes, and also interview. Based on the research result the first test in the cycle 1 was 58.61 (23.07%) and second test in the cycle 2 was 83.69 (84.61%). In addition, it can be seen from test of significance of students’ improvement showed to be bigger than ttable = 15.96>2.060. It can be concluded that the mean score in the cycle 2 was higher than the cycle 1. Then the result of t-test calculation was bigger than t-table with N = 25 is 2.060. The hypothesis in this research could be accepted because the score of students and the students’ activity in learning process by using guessing games technique showed the good improvement at grade VII-10 SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan.

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