Improving Students’ Speaking Skill of Asking and Giving Opinion through Role Play in SMP Islam Bani Hasyim Singosari

Abstract

This research is aiming to improve students of eight grade international class’ speaking skill on asking and giving opinion through role-plat method. This current research discusses about the solution of speaking problem in the grade eight of international class in SMP Islam Bani Hasyim. The class is identified having a problem, more than half of the class was having low ability of speaking. The students struggle with a variety of issues, including their lack of confidence when speaking English in front of their classmates and the teacher's monotonous teaching method (providing material, having students listen, and assigning tasks). In order to improve students’ speaking skill in a fun way, the researcher believes that role play is the ideal technique to be applied in this class. The research identified certain benefits of employing role play to improve the speaking skills of the eight grade international class at SMP Islam Bani Hasyim Singosari Malang. this research applies the qualitative paradigm and classroom action research. For the result, in this research there are two cycles where the students finally can pass the criteria of success that the researcher decided in the beginning, those are students active involvement during the class and discussion and the class average score is > 80. The result finally showed that students actively involved in class activity and the class average score is 88. In conclusion, the research is success because the researcher applying some different procedure in cycle two, those are: (1) the researcher provided information and pictures that related to the role-play (2) the students were given chance to make their own conversation in the role-play (3) the students were given time to have group practice