The improvement of junior high school students' speaking skill on short functional text through show and tell method

Qomariyah, Dwi (2023) The improvement of junior high school students' speaking skill on short functional text through show and tell method. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Speaking is one of the most crucial skills students must learn and improve as a form of communication. Teachers need to apply appropriate methods and strategies for students a promising technique to teach speaking. Show and tell method, as per the available research suggestions, is of great influence on the increase of students’ speaking skills. A big portion of studies indicate that the use of show and tell method can increase speaking skill. However, research related to show and tell is still very rare. Therefore, the researcher is interested in applying for the show and tell method as a strategy for teaching speaking to improve students' speaking skills. It was chosen because it is suitable for the aspects that were being increased.
The research question was, “Do the ninth grade of learning speaking skill through show and tell method achieve better than those learning the same skill through a conventional method?”. The research objective in this research was to investigate whether there is a significant effect of show and tell method on increasing students speaking skill of the ninth-grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Jember.
The researcher used the quantitative approach and quasi-experimental as the research design. The researcher used IX-A as the control and IX-B as the experimental classes. The researcher Show and tell method was applied in IX-B, while IX-A got a conventional method during teaching and learning. To collect the data, the researcher used a speaking test, which was a pre-test and post-test. After conducting the speaking test, the researcher used the normality test, homogeneity test and independent sample T-test to analyse the comparison between the two classes used as research.
The researcher could find the differences between the experimental and control classes from that research study. It showed that experimental class got a higher score than control class. The data calculated on the SPSS 26 version showed a pre-test score in the experimental class was 64,93, then an increase in the post-test score was 74,40. Besides, th pre-test scores in the control class were 62,34 and the post-test score were 66,90. Then, the independent sample t-test showed that the significant value 0,002 was <0,05. From the data result, it can be concluded that there was a significant effect of using show and tell method at SMP Negeri 1 Jember. So, it means that the ninth-grade students who used show and tell method to achieve better than those learning through conventional method. In addition, aspects of speaking that improved after applying show and tell method was grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency and pronunciation. Besides, show and tell method can increase students participation in the classroom. They were interested and confident in speaking English in front of the class during learning to speak English. Thus, the researcher suggested that English teachers use the show and tell method as an alternative method to make teaching English speaking more interesting and make the students more active in the learning process.

Keywords: Show and Tell Method, Speaking Skill, Short Functional Text

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