Improving theTenthGrade Students Speaking Ability Using Realia ( A Class Action Researchat SMK PGRI 3 Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015)
Author (Penulis)
MEDIA ROSALINA S.P
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
10.1.01.08.0158
Abstract
ABSTRACT
MEDIA ROSALINA SP, 10.1.01.08.0158.Improving theTenthGrade
Students Speaking Ability Using Realia
(
A Class Action Researchat SMK
PGRI 3 Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015)
. Skripsi, English Department,
The Faculty of Teacher Training andEducation, Universityof Nusantara
PGRI Kediri 2015.
Key Words:Speaking ability, Realia
Many students think that speaking is difficult lesson. However,most of them are
not interested in speaking lesson because they afraid to make a mistake in
pronunciation, they do not know the word what they will say in English. So the
teacher should be able to make them interested in English lesson especially in
speaking ability.
The objectives of this research are to describe speaking process using realia in the
classroom. Realia can improve the students speaking ability of tenth grade
students and explain the result of extend to improve the speaking ability and the
result of studentsresponse when realia applied to teach the tenth grade students
speaking ability at SMK PGRI3 Kediri in academic year 2014/2015.
The classroom action research is applied in the tenth grade students of
SMK PGRI 3 Kediri to solve the problem faced by the students during teaching
learning process. It aims to increase the students speaking ability in learning
English. The model that is used in this classroom action research by kemmis and
Taggart that is declared by Uno involved four step namely; planning,
implementing, observing, reflecting.
The process of this research was conducted 2 cycles. The data were
collected by using observation guide in order to know the events in the classroom
during teaching learning process. Besides that, she also used test to get the
students score and using questionnaire in the last meeting to know the students
response. The researcher used simple of realia. Because the material that was
taught by the teacher is describing people especially in physical appearance so she
used the students as realia. The result of research is successful it can be seen from
the result of students average good responses by students. The result after getting
all of the treatment using realia. Before getting the treatment students average
score was 53.3, and after giving treatment was 74.8, so it increased 21.5.And the
result of questioner showed that 82% students give positive response.
By doing this research it can be concluded realia is suitable for vocational
high school students. Besides, it is suggested to the other English teachers to use
realia as an alternative strategy in teaching speaking if they face same problem.