The Implementation Of Guided Conversation Strategy To Improve Students Speaking Skill At The Seventh Grade Of Mtsn 5 Jember In 2024/2025 Academic Year

Zakia, Mia Elok (2025) The Implementation Of Guided Conversation Strategy To Improve Students Speaking Skill At The Seventh Grade Of Mtsn 5 Jember In 2024/2025 Academic Year. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Sdiddiq Jember.

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Relating to the importance of speaking skills in learning English, speaking help students to express their thoughts, emotions, and opinions in spoken form. There were some components that were scored in speaking: pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. However, many students still faced difficulties in speaking. To overcome these challenges, the guided conversation strategy was applied through command-based activities that combined movement and verbal interaction. Where many students had speaking difficulties. Based on an interview with the English teacher, only 60% or 14 out of 23 students had reached the Minimum Mastery Criteria (KKM), and the average score was 71. The main obstacle is their discomfort in speaking, most likely due to a lack of exposure to interactive language use and limited opportunities to practice conversations in real-life situations.After discussing with the English teacher, the teacher and the researcher decided to implement the conversation strategy to help solve the speaking problems in class. This strategy was chosen to improve students’ speaking ability, especially in understanding and expressing conversational English more effectively.The purpose of this research was to improve students’ speaking skills by using the guided conversation strategy in the seventh grade of MTsN 5 Jember, The research question of this study was: “How was the implementation of guided conversation strategy able to improve the speaking skills of 7th-grade students at MTsN 5 Jember in 2024/2025 academic year?”. This study used the Classroom Action Research (CAR) method. The research design was collaborative classroom action research. The participants of this research were students of class 7thB at MTsN 5 Jember, consisting of 23 students. The research was conducted in one cycle, which included four steps: plan, implement, observe, and reflect. The techniques for collecting data in this study were students’ speaking tests, observation, interviews, and field notes. This research used content validity, in which the English teacher acted as the validator of the speaking test instrument. The criteria for success in this study were that at least 65% of the students should have achieved a score of 75 or above on the KKM.The results of the students’ speaking test after the cycle showed that the average score was 75 and 74% or 17 students passed the KKM, while 26%, or 6 students did not meet the criteria. It could be concluded that the implementation of the Conversation strategy improved the students’ speaking skills, and the research was considered successful. The observation results also showed that students could pronounce words more fluently, enriched their vocabulary, and better understood the content. The researcher suggested that future studies be conducted using other strategies or media to improve different language skills in English.
Keywords: Guided Conversation Strategy, Speaking Skill

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