IMPROVING CLASS XI IPA 1 STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMNET BY USING ROLE PLAY AT MAN 2 JEMBER IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Speaking is one of the important skills that should be mastered by the students. By having speaking skill, they can express their idea and communicate to others orally. Students can make listeners understand about what they speak by having a good pronunciation and fluency in delivering their speech. English language is the foreign language that almost never be used in daily life because the students used mother tongue to communicate with others. So, the students feel difficult to say something, to learn and practice using English. They feel afraid and shy and they do not have self-confidence to speak English. Role play technique is one of the suitable techniques that can help the students have good achievement in speaking English. This technique can make the students feel fun, relax and enjoy. It allows students to be creative and to pretend to be another person at another place. This research was a classroom action research which was intended to improve class XI IPA 1 students’ speaking achievement by using role play at MAN 2 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. This research was started by conducting an interview with the English teacher of the eleventh grade students at MAN 2 Jember on December 3 rd 2012. Based on the preliminary study, it was found that the students of class XI IPA 1faced difficulties in speaking. It was revealed that class XI IPA 1 only 28.12% of all students got 70 or higher. Besides, the students were not actively involved in the teaching learning process of speaking. This classroom action research was done collaboratively with the English teacher. The collaboration involved planning of the action, implementation of the action, observation and evaluation, and analysis and reflection. This research was

carried out in two cycles and each cycle consisted of three meetings included the test. The subject of this research was class XI IPA 1 that consists of 32 students, in the second semester 2012/2013 academic year. The research target was 60% students got score at least 70 and students active participation. Based on the result of observation, the improvement of the students’ active participation was shown from the results of the observation in cycle I, there were 9 of 32 students (28.12%) in meeting 1 and 13 of 32 students (40.63%) in meeting 2 who were actively involved in teaching learning activities through role play techniques. In cycle II, there were 18 of 32 students (56.25%) in meeting 1 and 21 of 32 students (65.63%) who were actively involved in teaching learning activities through role play techniques. The result of action in Cycle 2 showed significant improvements. This shows that the percentage of students who were active participation increased from 28.12% to 65.63%. The improvement in speaking test was indicated by following results. The percentage of the students who got scores at least 70 in cycle I was 43.8% while in the second cycle the percentage improved to 62.5%. Therefore, the criteria of success, 60% of the research subjects got scores at least 70 was fulfilled. In short, it can be concluded that role play techniques can improve class XI IPA 1 students’ speaking achievement. Therefore, the English teacher was suggested to use role play techniques as an alternative in teaching speaking.