Enhancing Students' Speaking Skill By Using Talking Stick at 8th A grade of MTs Baitul Arqom Balung Jember

Nurul, Istiqomah (2023) Enhancing Students' Speaking Skill By Using Talking Stick at 8th A grade of MTs Baitul Arqom Balung Jember. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Nurul Istiqomah L. M, 2023: Enhancing Students’ Speaking Skill by Using Talking Stick at 8th A Grade of MTs Bailtul Arqom Balung Jember

Keywords :Talking Stick, Speaking skill.

Speaking is a language skill in English to communicate verbally and express their thoughts. However, there are several problems that students face while expressing their ideas through oral communication. One of the obstacles is students lack of confidence. Therefore, teachers need a new teaching strategy to enhance students' speaking skills. Based on an interview with the English teacher and the results of preliminary research, the students speaking skill was still low which was percentage as 25% or 6 students who passed the preliminary research. Students do not pronounce word correctly. Therefore, after discussing with the English teacher, we decided to use talking stick in teaching students speaking skill and solve students problems in speaking skills.
In this research, the researcher formulated the research problem as follow: How do the use of talking stick improve the speaking skill of students at 8th grade of MTs Baitul Arqom Balung? The objective of the research was: to enhance students speaking skill by using talking stick at 8th grade of MTs Baitul Arqom Balung.
This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR),with several steps: plan, action, observe, and reflecting. The participants of this research were the 8th A grade at MTs Baitul Arqom Balung consisted of 28 students (6 male and 23 female). In this research, the research was conducted in two cycle. Data collection techniques used in this research were observation, interview, speaking test, and document review. The test was used to determine the enhancement of students' speaking skill during the learning process. The criteria of success in this research was if students reach the KKM score (75) which is equal to or higher than 70% of total students in this research.
The results of the students speaking test in the first cycle obtained an average score of 72. There were 13 students or 46% who passed the criteria of success. Therefore, the second cycle was carried out after reflection. The result of speaking test in the second cycle showed an average score of 75. There were 21 students or 75% who passed the criteria of success. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use talking stick strategy in class 8th A MTs Baitul Arqom Balung could enhance the students’ speaking skill and this research was successful.

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