The Implementation Of Information Gap-Activity To Improve Students Speaking Ability At Junior High School 1 Ajung.

Umah, Wildatul (2020) The Implementation Of Information Gap-Activity To Improve Students Speaking Ability At Junior High School 1 Ajung. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

This research is about the implementation of information gap-activity to improve students speaking ability. Teaching speaking is the process of guiding and facilitating students in learning to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feeling, one or other forms of language, teaching speaking skill is very complicated. In Junior high school 1 Ajung, the observer found that there were many students show up in the classroom without having developed a confident to speak in English. In fact, some junior high school students found also some difficulties to speak in English. To be more concrete, researcher did a pretest and then the results of pretest were 58.96. The minimum score from junior high school 1 Ajung is 70. So, there was only a few out of 32 students who almost reached the minimum score of 67. Based on the preliminary study, researcher found that the problem faced by students and need to be solved was pronunciation and fluency. Relating to the problems faced by the students above, the teacher taught speaking English to overcome the problems. Based on the background, the research question was: How is the implementation of information gap-activity in teaching speaking ability at Junior High School 1 Ajung?. Research objective is to describe the implementation of information gap-activity in teaching speaking ability at Junior High School 1 Ajung. This research applied to classroom action research. The participant of this research is the second grade in junior high school 1 Ajung in academic year of 2019/2020. The researcher conducted the research in one class (VIII A) which consists of 32 students. The research was carried out in one cycle. The steps were namely preliminary of research, planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The data of the research were completed by using quantitative and qualitative data. After using strategy of information gap-activity, the students’ speaking skill is increasing. It was proved by the result of students’ score. In preliminary research, the average of students’ score was 58,96. Meanwhile, the percentage of students who got ≤ 70 was 7.14%. Based on the result of the pre-test, it can say that the requirement 92.86% of the students who got ≤70 in speaking subject was unsuccessful. In cycle one, the students were given a treatment by using strategy of information gap-activity for fourth meetings. Then, in the last meeting, they have answered the questions on the worksheet given by the teacher. The percentage of students who got ≥ 70 was 100%. Based on the result of the pre-test, it can say that the requirement 100% of the students who got ≥70 in speaking subject was done and successful. It can be concluded that strategy of information gap-activity can improve students speaking skill in junior high school 1 Ajung.

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