Exploring Talking Stick Mediated speaking tasks to Improve Students Speaking Skill: An Action Research Speaking is one of the important skills in learning English.

Moh. Iqbal Azizi, - (2021) Exploring Talking Stick Mediated speaking tasks to Improve Students Speaking Skill: An Action Research Speaking is one of the important skills in learning English. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training English Education Department.

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Moh. Iqbal Azizi, 2021: Exploring Talking Stick Mediated speaking tasks to Improve Students Speaking Skill: An Action Research Speaking is one of the important skills in learning English. However, many students have difficulty in learning English especially in pronunciation, they have low self-confidence and they are afraid to make mistakes. Therefore, talking stick is a method that can be used to improve the students’ speaking skill. The objectives of this research were; 1) To investigate the exploitation of talking stick method for improvement of EFL students’ speaking skill. 2) To investigate the exploitation of talking stick method for the improvement of EFL students speaking skill participation in the classroom. This research used CAR (classroom action research). by following some steps; planning, acting, observing, evaluating and reflecting. The participants of this research were the eighth grades at MTs Al-Islah consisting of 30 students (30 males). The data of this research were gathered by using speaking test, interview, observation and document review. This research was taken in two cycles. The result of the first cycle obtained the mean score of 60.80. There were 12 students or 40% of students who got score above the minimum mastery criterion. Therefore, the second cycle was carried out after the evaluating and reflecting. The result of the second cycle obtained the mean score of 71.86. They were 22 students or 73.3% who got score above the minimum mastery criterion. Hence, it could be concluded that there were improvement of students’ speaking skill after exploring the talking stick method. Keywords: Exploring talking stick mediated speaking tasks, speaking skill learning

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