The Implementation of Focus Group Discussion Technique to Improve Sudents’ Speaking Skill at Eleventh Grade of SMK Al – Qodiri Jember in Academic Year of 2020/2021

Abdul Munir, Abdul (2022) The Implementation of Focus Group Discussion Technique to Improve Sudents’ Speaking Skill at Eleventh Grade of SMK Al – Qodiri Jember in Academic Year of 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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ABDUL MUNIR, 2022. The Implementation of Focus Group Discussion Technique to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill at Eleventh Grade of SMK Al – Qodiri Jember in academic year of 2020/2021

Speaking is one of the important language skills. It is because most of people used speaking ability in transferring their idea to other people. However, the problems faced by the students in this research were, first, the students were shy and nervous to speak because they were rarely in practicing english. The second, the students were affraid of making errors when they were speaking. The last, the students still face many difficulties to pronounce each word well. So that, the aim of this research is to solve the poblems of the students and improve their speaking.
The objective of the research is to describe how the implementation of Focus Group Discussion can improve the students’ speaking skill at eleventh grade of SMK Al-Qodiri Jember.
There are some strategies that can be done in teaching speaking, such as cooperative learning, role play, describing picture, and talking stick. In this case, the researcher used focus group discussion as technique in teaching learning process. Focus Group Discussion is a good way to improve students’ speaking skill, because they have much opportunity to speak and share their opinion abouta certain topic.
This research was conducted at eleventh grade of SMK Al – Qodiri Jember with 21 students those are 15 males and 6 females. This research used classroom action research (CAR) devided by two cycles. The result of first cycle showed the mean score were 68 it was mean that the students still had low score in their speaking and there were only eleven students who passed the target score that was 70.
Whereas, the result of the second cycle was 74, it was mean that the students had little improvement in their speaking score. Hence, it could be concluded that there were improvement of students speaking skill after implementing focus group discussion.
Keyword : Implementation of Focus Group Discussion Technique, Speaking skill.

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