Improving Speaking Skill in Recount Text Through Comic Strips at the Eight Grade Students of SMP Argopuro 1 Panti 2021/2022 Academic Year

Astuti, Meria Nur (2022) Improving Speaking Skill in Recount Text Through Comic Strips at the Eight Grade Students of SMP Argopuro 1 Panti 2021/2022 Academic Year. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KIAI HAJI ACHMAD SIDDIQ JEMBER.

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Abstract

The aim of this resaerch was to improve speaking skill in recount text
through comic strips at the eight grade students of SMP Argopuro 1 Panti 2021.
The students of VIII-A had problem in speaking. Based on an interview with
English teacher and the results of preliminary study, the students‟ speaking skill
was still low which was percentage as 30% and the average score was 59.8. Based
on the results of preliminary study, they said that speaking English was difficult
task. Besides, they felt weird if there are friends who try to speak in English in
class it was not used to it. Learning in class was also boring. After discussing with
the English teacher, we decided to implement comic-strips media. Comic strips
was one of appropriate to improve students‟ speaking skill. Comic strips could
give motivation and entertainment while learning English. Thus, in this research
the researcher used comic-strips media to improve students‟ speaking skill.
The research question of this research was “How could teacher improve
speaking skill in recount text through comic strips at the eight grade students of
SMP Argopuro 1 Panti ?‟. The objective of the research was to investigate how
teacher could improve speaking skill in recount text through comic strips at the
eight grade students of SMP Argopuro 1 Panti.
The approach used in this research was Classroom Action Research
(CAR). The classroom action research design used in this research was
collaborative classroom action and research. The researcher conducted this
research at the VIII-A of SMP Argopuro 1 Panti which consisted of 20 students.
This research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four steps :
planning, acting, observing and reflecting. To collect the data, the researcher used
the students‟ speaking test, interview, fieldnote and document review. The test
was used to find out the improvement of students‟ speaking skill after the
researcher was conducted.
The criteria of success in this research was if the students reached the
minimum score (75) are equal to or higher than 60%. The result of cycle one
showed that 40% passed the criteria of succes. It meant there was 8 students
passed the criteria of succes with 72,3 as the average score in cycle one. While
the second cycle showed that there was 80% had passed the criteria of succes. It
meant that there was 16 students passed the criteria of succes with 79,9 with
average score. It could be said successful.
According to observation, it was concluded that students were interested
in learning by implementing comic strips and they felt enthusiastic in doing the
task. The classroom situation also could handled well. The researcher also gave
suggestion to the future researcher to conduct better research and emphasized
more on the content and organization of speaking skill.

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