“Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Using Numbered Heads Together” (A Classroom Action Research At The Eighth Grade Of Smp N 16 Surakarta in Academic Year 2010/2011)

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Titien Anggraini - X2207067 - Fak. KIP

Titien Anggraini. X2207067. IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILL USING NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER (A Classroom Action Research at the Eighth Grade of SMP N 16 Surakarta in Academic Year 2010/2011). A Thesis. Surakarta. Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University, 2011. This thesis is aimed to find out whether the use of Numbered Heads Together can improve the speaking skill and to describe the class situation of the speaking class when Numbered Heads Together is implemented in the eighth grade of SMP N 16 Surakarta in the academic year 2010/2011. The method used in this research is a classroom action research at the Senior High School conducted by the researcher. The research is conducted in two cycles from April 30 th until May 28 th 2011 to the eighth grade students of SMP N 16 Surakarta. The research data are collected by using techniques of observation, interview, photographs, audio recording, and tests (pre-test and post-test). The data are analyzed using descriptive statistic technique and qualitative data analysis. The research findings prove that Numbered Heads Together can improve the students’ speaking skill and the situation of the speaking class when Numbered Heads Together is implemented in the teaching learning process. The improvement of the students’ speaking skill includes accuracy (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation) and fluency. Besides, the improvement of the students’ speaking skill can be seen from the improvement of the mean score of the pre-test and the second post-test, which is from 4.5 to 7.24. Meanwhile, the class situation when Numbered Heads Together was applied in the teaching learning process is as follows: 1) The students became more active in speaking class; 2) The students were more serious when working together with their friends to discuss the answers; 3) The students were more motivated when Numbered Heads Together technique was applied in teaching learning process; 4) The students focused on the explanation of the teacher; 5) All of the students got opportunities to practice in speaking class. Hopefully, the teacher can use Numbered Heads Together in the teaching English, especially in the speaking class in order to make the students more active in joining the lesson. But the teacher should control the class to avoid the students’ noisy so that they focus on the lesson. Therefore, the class situation can be in control and students’ speaking skill can improve.