Improving students’ speaking ability through work in pairs at grade VIII SMP N 5 Siabu

Aisah, Siti (2015) Improving students’ speaking ability through work in pairs at grade VIII SMP N 5 Siabu. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study aimed at improving students’ speaking ability through work in pairs at SMP N 5 Siabu. The objective of this study was to found whether students’ speaking ability improved if it would be taught by using work in pairs. To solve the problem, the writer conducted classroom action research, by implementing work in pairs. The writer applied two cycles in this research. Each cycle consist of two meetings. The participant of this study was one class consisted of two 30 students’. The instrument of collecting the date the writer was used speaking test, observation sheet and document. Based on the research result, showed the progressive mean of the students the firs meetings was 53.83 second meeting was 60 third meeting was 70 and the fourth meeting was 92. So the mean in the second cycle was higher than the firs cycle. That data from observation sheet indicated that the students’ got improvement. It indicated that the application of work in pairs technique improve students’ speaking ability. on conclusion, work in pairs could improve students’ speaking ability at SMP N 5 Siabu. Hopefully, the research result could be positive input for other researchers and teachers to conduct the research, particularly on speaking issue.

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