U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 6, No 2 (2017): U-JET

The Use of Role Play to Improve the Students' Speaking Achievement of the Second Grade of SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Bandar Lampung

Yona May Rahayu (Lampung University)
Mahpul Mahpul (Lampung University)
Gede Eka Putrawan Putrawan (Lampung University)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Mar 2017

Abstract

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana keterlibatan dari keaktifan siswa pada kemampuan berbicara melalui teknik role play dan apakah ada efek yang signifikan terhadap kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah diajarkan menggunakan teknik role play. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan kuantitatif dan dilaksanakan di kelasX1 SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Bandar Lampung yang berjumlah 30 siswa. Data penelitian dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan observasi dan tes berbicara.Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa mayoritas siswa aktif dalam belajar berbicara dengan menggunakan tenik role play dan adanya peningkatan kemampuan siswa dalam berbicara setelah diajarkan menggunakan teknik role play. Terdapat sebuah statistik mengenai efek dari teknik role play yang signifikan terhadap pencapaian berbicara siswa dengan level 9.4. Hal tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa role play adalah cara efektif untuk meningkatkan berbicara siswa.The aims of this research were to investigate (i) the students active involvement in speaking through role play technique and (ii) whether there was a statistically significant effect of the students speaking achievement after they were taught using the role play technique. It was a qualitative and quantitative research. The subject were 30 students of SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Bandarlampung. The datas of this research were collected through observation and speaking tests. The result of the observation showed that the majority of the students were actively involved in the teaching learning through role play technique. There was also a significant effect of role play on the students speaking achievement with significant level 9.4. This suggests that role play is effective to improve students speaking performance.Keywords: role play technique, speaking achievement, students involvement

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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 ...