The Use of a Series of Podcasts as a Speaking Strategy to Improve Students' Speaking Skill in Transactional Text at Seventh Grade Students of Junior High School

Maharotun, Faikoh (2025) The Use of a Series of Podcasts as a Speaking Strategy to Improve Students' Speaking Skill in Transactional Text at Seventh Grade Students of Junior High School. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KHAS JEMBER.

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Abstract

Maharotun Faikoh, 2024: The Use a Series of Podcasts as a Speaking Strategy to
Improve Students’ Speaking Skill in Transactional Text at Seventh Grade Students of
Junior High School
Keyword: Speaking Skill, a Series of Podcasts, Transactional Text.
In recent years, teaching speaking has become a crucial skill for junior high
level because speaking is the important ability in learning English for asking and
delivering information. So, most of people emphasize that the criteria of success in
learning English is the ability to speak English well. Based on the students‟ problems
in the preliminary study, it was found that students still lack interest in teaching
speaking and have less confidence when speaking in front of others to express
themselves. One of the reasons why students lack interest and have low speaking
ability is that students have studied memorization and hardly ever practice. Therefore,
one of the ways to improve students‟ speaking skills is using a series of podcasts.
The research questions of this study are 1) How is a series of podcasts is
implemented as a speaking strategy to improve students‟ speaking skill in
transactional texts? 2) How does a series of podcasts as a speaking strategy to
improve students‟ speaking skill in transactuional text?. The objective in this research
are to know the implementation of a series of podcasts as a speaking strategy to
improve students‟ speaking skill in transactional text and to know how a series of
podcasts as a speaking strategy can improve students‟ speaking skill in transactional
text.
This research design is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) adapted from
Stephen Kemmis and McTaggart that consists of four steps, namely: planning, acting,
observing, and reflecting. This research was carried out in two cycles. Each cycle
contains three meetings. This research was conducted at Junior High School in Puger,
with the participants of this research being the students of the 7th E, which consisted
of 28 students. The data collection techniques used in this study was observation,
observation sheets, document review, and speaking test.
The result obtained in the pre-test stage was a percentage score of 32%, with
the average score being 59,1 from 9 students, while the 19 students from this result
were known to have low scores obtained in the pre-test, this was because the English
teacher were less giving a practice speaking in improving students speaking skill. The
researcher concluded that from cycle 1 up to cycle 2, the students' speaking skills
were improved. It showed that the percentage of students' improvement in the pre-test
was 32%, up to 67% of students' improvement, as stated by 19 of 28 students who
finished in cycle 1. The percentage of students' improvement in cycle 2 has increased
to 86%, that were 24 of 28 students who finished the scores. It indicates that using a
series of podcasts as a speaking strategy in transactional text could improve students'
speaking skills.

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