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HUMOR ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL WITH HIGH AND LOW LEARNING MOTIVATION Syafiq, Ahmad Nur; Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
Publisher : Faculty of Languages ​​and Arts, State University of Semarang

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This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of humor as English foreign language teaching material to improve students’ speaking skill with of high or low motivation for the students and the effect that the use of humor gives to their teaching. This study was quasi experimental research named two-way (two-by-two) factorial design. The subjects were 80 students of STAIN Kudus, 40 students in the experimental group and 40 students in the control group. Both groups were distributed the pre-test to measure students speaking skill. For treatment, Shades (1996) classification of verbal humor was used. The results revealed that humor as teaching material has significant effect on the students’ speaking skill to those who have high and low learning motivation. The students expressed that humor in the classroom situation affected their learning positively to those who have high or low motivation rather than conventional material.
HUMOR ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL WITH HIGH AND LOW LEARNING MOTIVATION Syafiq, Ahmad Nur; Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/lc.v7i1.2431

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of humor as English foreign language teaching material to improve students’ speaking skill with of high or low motivation for the students and the effect that the use of humor gives to their teaching. This study was quasi experimental research named two-way (two-by-two) factorial design. The subjects were 80 students of STAIN Kudus, 40 students in the experimental group and 40 students in the control group. Both groups were distributed the pre-test to measure students' speaking skill. For treatment, Shade's (1996) classification of verbal humor was used. The results revealed that humor as teaching material has significant effect on the students’ speaking skill to those who have high and low learning motivation. The students expressed that humor in the classroom situation affected their learning positively to those who have high or low motivation rather than conventional material.