The Effectiveness of Bamboo Dance Method in Improving Students Speaking Skill in 8 Grade of SMP Plus As-Shafa Academic Year 2020/2021

Fikria, Hisna Nasith (2021) The Effectiveness of Bamboo Dance Method in Improving Students Speaking Skill in 8 Grade of SMP Plus As-Shafa Academic Year 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: Bamboo Dance Method, Speaking Skill Speaking is one of the competencies in English that English learners must master. Speaking is not like listening, writing, or reading because when people want to learn English, the goal is to communicate with the other person. When the researcher observed in grade 8 SMP Plus As-Shafa Jubung, students were less confident in their speaking skills, besides the method used by the teacher was monotonous. There are many creative methods, one of the learning methods that can hone students' English speaking skills is the bamboo dance method, based on the theory from previous research by Intan Melati Bamboo Dancing aims to motivate students to dare to express opinions or say something, so this method is appropriate to use for teach speaking. The research question in this study was "How is the effectiveness of the bamboo dance method in improving the speaking skills of 8th-grade students of SMP Plus As-Shafa Jubung?". This study aims to identify the effectiveness of the bamboo dance method to improve the speaking ability of 8th-grade students of SMP Plus AS-Shafa Jubung for the 2020/2021 academic year. This research used a quasi experimental research design. The population in this study was class VIII SMP Plus As-Shafa in the academic year 2020/2021. This research used purposive sampling because the researcher was only allowed to research in grades 8A and 8B by the principal of SMP Plus As-Shafa Jubung. The total population in this study was 32 people, where class 8B consisted of 16 students as the experimental group and class 8A with 16 students as the control group. The data collected in this study were observation, interviews, pre-test, and post-test on students through speaking tests and documentary studies. The data was checked using SPSS 21. The researcher used the t-test formula to find the results. The researcher found differences between the experimental group and the control group. The pre-test scores of the experimental class students mainly were 13-18, the post-test scores after the bamboo dance method were mostly 19-23. In the control class, the pre-test scores of 14-19 for the post-test were 17-20, and the control class did not apply the bamboo dance method. The t value obtained from the post-test results between the experimental and control classes is 2.01210909147. This shows the t-test value > 0.05 from the data presented. It can be concluded that the bamboo dance method is effective in improving English speaking skills in 8th-grade students of SMP Plus As-Shafa Jubung for the 2020/2021 academic year.

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