Improving Students’ Speaking Skill by Using English Video At Class VII A of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Annuriyyah Jember in Academic Year 2019/2020

Setyo, Irene Apriliana (2020) Improving Students’ Speaking Skill by Using English Video At Class VII A of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Annuriyyah Jember in Academic Year 2019/2020. Undergraduate thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Jember.

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Abstract

Key Words: English video, speaking skill, classroom action research The research was about improving student’s speaking skill by using English video at VII A Class of MTs Annuriyyah Jember. The students of VII A Class had problem on speaking. Based on the preliminary study, it was known from the test that there were 27% students could pass the assessment score that was 75 based on the agreement of the researcher and the collaborator (English teacher). It was proven that the average score of their speaking was 56.34 , that was a very low score. There were 7 students from 26 students passed the test. Some students felt that English was not interesting and even boring because the teacher only used English textbook, they needed some media to motivate them in learning process. We decided to implement English video as a media to improve students’s speaking skill. This research was conducted at class VII A of MTs Annuriyyah Jember consisted of 26 students. This research was classified as Classroom Action Research (CAR) of Kemmish and Taggart which consist of four procedures, namely planning the action, implementing the action, observing and reflecting. In this research, the researcher conducted in two cycle. The cycles were applied on March 2020 which consisted of three meetings, two meetings to implement the action and one meeting to students’ speaking test or post-test. To collect the data, the researcher used the students’ speaking test, observation, interview and document review. The test was used to find out the improvement of students’ speaking skill after implementing the action. In addition, after implementing the action, the result of the implementation of the English video indicated that there were improvements in students’ speaking skill. It proven by the data showed that 80.76% of students had passed the criteria of success. The research would succed if there was 75% of students could pass the test score that was 75 based on the agreement of the researcher and the collaborator teacher. It could be said successful. The element of speaking skill which got improvement since teaching and learning process was vocabulary, Pronunciation, grammar and fluency. The students could memorize many vocabularies well. They began to know the meaning of vocabulary without looking at their dictionary because the researcher gave more vocabularies in the video. Their pronounciation also improved, it could be seen when they spoke up in front of the class, they could pronounced it correctly. The students really understand about the grammar or the pattern of simple present tense. They were easy to distinguish about the use of to be for the subject, they could arrange the sentences by using simple present tense. If they knew the vocabulary, pronunciation and also grammar,they could speak up fluently. When the students performed to describe something in front of class, they looked enthusiastic, because after watching the video they knew how the native speaker actually speak. The students also looked braver and more confident to speak English. So, this research is recommended the other teachers and the researchers to use English video as media to improve the students’ speaking skill.

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