Jaelani, Zyah Rochmad (2014) EFFORTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES: A CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH AT GRADE VIII OF SMP N 8 YOGYAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
This research was aimed at improving students’ speaking skills through the use of Communicative Activities at grade VIII students of SMP N 8 Yogyakarta in the academic year of 2013/2014. The actions were conducted based on the curriculum and in line with the course grade and lesson plan developed before conducting the actions. This research was an action research study and consisted of two cycles. The data were obtained from observations during the teaching and learning process, interviews with the students and the English teacher and photographs. It supported by quantitative method in the form of speaking rubric. The data were in the forms of field notes, interview transcripts, students’ speaking performance scores, and photographs. The validity of the data was obtained by applying democratic validity, outcome validity, process validity, catalytic validity, and dialogic validity. Time triangulation and investigator triangulation were also applied to check the trustworthiness of the data. The data collected were qualitative in nature. The data were analyzed from the vignette and interview transcripts. The research was involved the communicative activities in the forms of various information gap activities and games as the main actions. Using classroom English, communicating the objectives of the learning to the students, conducting pre-communicative activities, conducting communicative activities, giving feedback, giving vocabulary and pronunciation check, using media in learning processes and giving rewards were the actions conducting during this research. The results show that there are some improvements in students’ speaking skills. First, the improvements were achieved gradually, such as responsiveness, fluency, accuracy, self-confidence and cooperation. The students had better atmosphere of learning and had ample opportunities to practice their English. It resulted in the students’ improvement of both quantity and quality of their language production. All implemented actions were successful to make the students active in joining the teaching and learning processes. Second, the results of the last observation showed that there were some improvements in each indicator in the speaking rubric. There were 30 students or 100% students who improved their involvement, cooperation and task responsibility. There were 28 students or 93, 33% students who improved their fluency. There were 29 students or 96, 67% students who improved their grammatical accuracy. In addition, there were 27 students or 90% students who improved their pronunciation accuracy and 29 students or 96, 67% students who improved their vocabulary.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | speaking, communicative activities, smp n 8 yogyakarta |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2015 08:03 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 22:41 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/19198 |
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