Improving the students’ speaking skill by implementing snowball throwing technique at eight grade students of junior high school of Nurul Islam Jember in academic year 2020/2021.

Fitriya, Ms (2021) Improving the students’ speaking skill by implementing snowball throwing technique at eight grade students of junior high school of Nurul Islam Jember in academic year 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Key Words: Snowball throwing technique, speaking skill Speaking skill is one of the abilities which are very important in studying language because it is used to express ideas, feeling, and thoughts. The aim of this research was to find out whether the implementation of Snowball throwing technique can improve students’ speaking skill among the eight grade students of SMP Nurul Islam Jember. The focused on this research is speaking skill. It is related to the problem identification that students felt difficult to share ideas because they were unconfident, nervous, and shy to speak in front of their friends due to the lack of vocabulary and pronunciation. This research was conducted at class VIII D of SMP Nurul Islam Jember. This research was classified as Classroom Action Research (CAR) of Kemmish and Taggart which consisted of four procedures, namely planning the action, implementing the action, observing and reflecting. In this research, the researcher conducted two cycles. The cycle was applied on November 2020 which consisted of three meetings, two meetings for implementing the action and one meeting for students’ speaking test or post test. In planning the action, the researcher and collabolator prepared lesson plan based on the data from preliminary study which refers to the problem found, the material and observation sheet. Furthemore, in implementing the action, the researcher as the practitioner applied the planning in teaching learning process by implementing snowball throwing technique. Next, observing was the process of collecting the data from the implementation, the researcher and collaborator observed all of the classroom activities during the implementation of the action. The last was reflecting, in this process the researcher and collaborator analyzed that the data taken from observation and compared with the criteria of succes which 70% of students had to reach the target score that was 75. The subject of this research was twenty eight of class VIII D of SMP Nurul Islam Jember. The result of this research showed that there was improvement of the students’ speaking skill. It could be seen from the result of the test which improved. The mean score of the pre-test was 55.46 the mean score of post-test 1 was 65.35. The mean score of post-test 2 was 79.46. The precentage of students who passed the minimum score in pre-test was 21%, in cyle 1 was 46%, and cycle 2 was 78%. It can be conclouded that there were improvement of students’ speaking skill by implementing snowball throwing technique.

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