A Thesis Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Using Roundrobin Technique (A Classroom Action Research Conducted In The Second Grade Of Smp Negeri 1 Gondang For Academic Year Of 2010/2011)

Oleh :
Nurita Dwi Agustiningrum - X2207022 - Fak. KIP

This thesis is to find out whether the use of roundrobin technique can improve the students’ speaking skill of the second grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Gondang in the academic year of 2010/2011 and to know the classroom situation when applying roundrobin technique in the teaching speaking of the second grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Gondang in the academic year of 2010/2011. The method used in this research is a classroom action research at the Junior High School conducted by an English Teacher (Teacher YS) and the researcher. The research is conducted in two cycles from March 16th until April 7th 2011 to the second grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Gondang. The research data are collected using observation, interview, questionnaire, photographs, audio recording, and tests (pretest and post-test). The data are analyzed using the technique of analyzing the data from Anne Burns (1999:157-160), includes, assembling the data, coding the data, comparing the data, building interpretation, reporting the outcomes and descriptive statistics. The research findings prove that roundrobin can improve the students’ speaking skill and the classroom situation is more cooperative and communicative when roundrobin is implemented in teaching speaking. The improvement of the students’ speaking skill includes: 1) the students’ speaking difficulty in using grammar decreased, 2) the students’ difficulty in pronouncing the English words decreased, 3) the students’ vocabulary mastery increased, and 4) the students’ speaking fluency improved. Besides, the improvement of the students’ speaking skill can be seen from the improvement of the mean score of pre-test, first post- test and second post-test, that is 4.47, 5.8, and 7.01. The classroom situation is also more cooperative and communicative. It can be seen from the several improvement such as: 1) all of the students got chances to practice speaking and they used it to speak up, 2) all of the students showed the participation and also more active in speaking class, 3) all of the students paid more attention to the researcher and did not do the nonacademic activities, 4) the students were more cooperative and communicative during the speaking class, and 5) most of the students were more confident, less nervous, less afraid of making mistakes and less nervous. Roundrobin technique can be applied in teaching learning process. Hopefully, by applying roundrobin technique, the students can improve their speaking skill. The researcher hopes that what the researcher had done will give the English teachers inspiration to conduct roundrobin technique in their classroom.