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Journal : Transform : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL IN EXPRESSING OFFERING BY USING ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE Asramadhani -; Sri Minda Murni
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 2, No 2 (2013)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (83.178 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/tj.v2i2.909

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AbstractThis research concerns on improving students’ speaking skill in expressingoffering by using role play technique. The objective was to find out theimprovement of students’ speaking skill in expressing offering. This research wasconducted by using action research method. The subject of the research was Xcstudents of SMA Negeri 1 Stabat. The numbers of students were thirty sixstudents. They were taught speaking skill in expressing offering by using role playtechnique. The instruments used were the examples of conversation, diary notes,interview sheets, questionnare and observation sheets. In analyzing data, the meanof students’ score for the first competency test was 59,5, for the secondcompetency test was 69,4 and for the third competency test was 77,7. Theconclusion is that by using role play technique can improve the students’ speakingskill in expressing offering. It is suggested that teachers to use role play as one ofstrategy to improve students’ speaking skill in expressing offering.Key words: Speaking Skill, Expressing Offering, Role Play Technique
A STUDY OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN STAND-UP COMEDY Giel Utami Putri; Sri Minda Murni
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 3, No 4 (2014)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

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ABSTRACT This research was conducted to discover the types of illocutionary acts, the most dominant type of illocutionary acts, the implication of the dominant type of illocutionary acts, and which utterances show the function of stand-up comedy in stand-up comedy performances in Indonesia. It was based on descriptive design by applying both quantitative and qualitative method. This study took ten performances of stand-up comedy which is taken randomly from the internet and there were 1378 illocutionary acts in ten stand-up comedy selected. The findings show that all types of illocutionary acts were used in stand-up comedy and the percentages were: 55.9% of representatives, 22.9% of directives, 16.2% of expressives, 3% of declaratives and 2% of commissives. There was another function of stand-up comedy in addition to entertaining, informing, and criticizing, which is insinuating. The most dominant illocutionary acts type found was representatives. It means, in delivering their material, the comics dominantly convey their belief that some proposition is true and they also indirectly provoke the audience to believe their words. Keywords: Illocutionary Acts, Stand-Up Comedy.