THE USE OF ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

Arief Munandar Zs, Muhammad Sukirlan, Ramlan Ginting Suka

Abstract


The objective of this research is to know whether there is a significant improvement of the students’ speaking ability after being taught through Role Play.The population of this research was the Second year students of SMA Negeri 1 Tanjungbintang. One group pre-test and post-test design was used.The mean score of pre-test was 57.13 and post-test was 82.  It proved that the students’ scores increase significantly because p<0.05 (p=0.000). It can be concluded that there is a significant difference of students’ achievement in speaking ability after being taught through Role Play technique.

Keywords: improving, speaking ability, role play.


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