U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 2, No 11 (2013): U-JET

INCREASING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH ROLE PLAY IN MAN 1 BANDAR LAMPUNG

Muhammad Rozi (University of Lampung)
Patuan Raja (University of Lampung)
Ramlan Ginting Suka (University of Lampung)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 Jan 2014

Abstract

Salah satu keterampilan berbahasa yang paling penting untuk dikuasai dalam pemenuhan fungsi bahasa adalah berbicara. Kita dapat menggunakan berbagai macam teknik untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa. Salah satu teknik yang dapat digunakan adalah main peran. Main peran dapat menciptakan simulasi kondisi nyata dimana bahasa digunakan. Oleh karena itu tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat apakah main peran dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa. Peneliti menggunakan desain pre-test and post-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata meningkat dari 58.25 (pretest) ke 70.38 (posttest) dan nilai signifikansi berada dibawah 0.05 yang berarti peningkatan yang terjadi signifikan. Jadi, dapat disimpulkan bahwa main peran merupakan salah satu teknik yang sesuai untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa.One of the most important language skills to be mastered is speaking. We can use various fun and effective methods and techniques to increase students’ speaking ability. One of the methods can be used known as role play. Role play can provide the real reflection of condition in real life where the language used. That is why the objective of this research was to see whether role play can improve students’ speaking ability. The researcher used pre-test and post-test design in this research. Based on the data, the researcher found that there were significant improvements in students’ speaking performance. The data shows that the mean improved from 58.25 (pretest) to 70.38 (posttest) and the value of significance (2 tailed) was 0.000 and the sign α (0.000 0.05). It can be said that role play can be used as one of the most suitable techniques in teaching speaking in order to increase students’ speaking ability.Keywords: role play, speaking ability, teaching speaking.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...