THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING METHOD TO IMROVE STUDENTS' SPEAKING SKILLS AT ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BONDOWOSO IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023

Romadhona, Gina (2022) THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING METHOD TO IMROVE STUDENTS' SPEAKING SKILLS AT ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BONDOWOSO IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Shiddiq Jember.

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Gina Romadhona, 2022: The Implementation of Problem Based Learning Method to Improve Students’ Speaking Skills at Eleventh Grade Students of Islamic Senior High School Bondowoso in Academic Year 2022/2023
Key Words: Students’ Speaking Skill, Problem Based Learning, Classroom Action Research

Speaking skill is one of the important elements in the four basic skills of English subject. Speaking skill is very important to be mastered, with the aim of facilitating communication with others. Mastering speaking is not an easy thing. It takes the right strategy or method in order to improve the speaking skill. Unfortunately, there were some problems faced by the G2 students’ of MAN Bondowoso in speaking skill. Such as, lack of vocabulary, experienced mispronunciation, didn’t know the structure of the sentences, experienced some hesitations on what they wanted to convey, afraid of making mistakes when they were speaking, felt shy to speak, and felt u nconfident to express their idea. To solve the problem, the researcher and the English teacher agreed to implement Problem Based Learning method that is believed can improve the students speaking skill.
Based on the above problems, the research question formulated in this study is “How can implementing Problem Based Learning improve the students’ speaking skill?”. The objective of this research is to investigate the improvement of the students’ speaking skill by using Problem Based Learning (PBL) method.
This article is a report of a classroom action research by Kemmish and Mc Taggart that aimed at finding out how PBL method could be implemented effectively in improving the students’ speaking skill. The classroom action research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle comprised planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The qualitative data were collected through observations, interviews and document review, while the quantitative data were obtained through tests.
The research finding revealed that the implementation of PBL method enable students to speak better than before, it can improve the students’ speaking skill in the aspects of Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation and Fluency. It was proven by the improvement of the result of the test done by the students that reached the criterion of success that was 75%. It means that the result showed the total amount of the students who got the score 75 or higher than 75 in post-test two were 29 students with the percentage of 82.85%. It was increasing from 48.57% in the pre-test and 68.57% in the post test one. While the result of the observation showed that the PBL method promoted a better classroom situation than before.

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