IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZED SPEAKING TASKS TO XI-1 CLASS OF THE OFFICE ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT AT SMKN 1 SLAWI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2011/2012

Fabianto, Eko (2012) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZED SPEAKING TASKS TO XI-1 CLASS OF THE OFFICE ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT AT SMKN 1 SLAWI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2011/2012. S1 thesis, FBS UNY.

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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZED SPEAKING TASKS TO XI-1 CLASS OF THE OFFICE ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT AT SMKN 1 SLAWI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2011/2012 By: Eko Fabianto 06202244106 ABSTRACT The objectives of this research study were: (1) to find out how contextualized speaking tasks are implemented to improve students’ speaking ability in XI-1 class of the Office Administration Department at SMKN 1 Slawi (2) to find out how the use of contextualized speaking tasks can improve students’ speaking ability in XI-1 class of Office Administration Department at SMKN 1 Slawi. This research was action research. The steps of this research were reconnaissance, planning, conducting actions and observation, and having reflections. The subjects of this research were 36 students in XI-1 class of the Office Administration Department at SMKN 1 Slawi in the academic year of 2011/ 2012. The data in this research were qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were obtained by observing the teaching and learning process during the implementation of the actions, interviewing the English teacher and the students, and asking the students’ opinion about the teaching and learning process. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were obtained by assessing the students’ speaking performance in the first and second cycles. Furthermore, this research applied triangulation to get trustworthiness. In addition, the validity of the data was obtained by applying a democratic validity, a result validity, a process validity, a catalytic validity, and a dialogic validity. With regard to the actions, with the implementation of the two cycles, the following presents the result of the research. First, the use of contextualized speaking tasks enables students to communicate using English based on the context. Second, the improvement on the students’ speaking ability was supported by the progress of the mean score of the first and the second speaking performances. In the first speaking performance, the mean was 6.92. The mean increased to be 7.49 in the second speaking performance. This implies that the contextualized speaking tasks are highly recommended to be applied in teaching and learning process of speakin

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
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: 18 Aug 2016 03:02
Last Modified: 30 Jan 2019 10:31
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/40069

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