| dc.description.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 | en_US |
