Using Movie Clip to Improve the First Grade Students’ Speaking Skill in Describing People at MTs N 1 Bandar Lampung
Abstract
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah ada perbedaan pada kemampuan siswa dalam mendeskripsikan orang secara lisan setelah diajarkan melalui media potongan film. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di kelas VII MTs N 1 Bandar Lampung yang berjumlah 20 siswa. Data penelitian ini dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan tes berbicara lisan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan kemampuan berbicara siswa yang signifikan dengan tingkat signifikansi 0.05. Dari hal tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa potongan film adalah cara efektif untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa dalam mendeskripsikan orang.
The aim of this study is to find out whether there is a statistically significant difference of students’ speaking skill in describing people between the pretest and the posttest in the implementation of teaching through movie clip. This research was a quantitative research. The subjects of the research were 20 students at the first grade of MTs N 1 Bandar Lampung. The speaking test was administered as the instrument of the research. The result showed that there was a statistically significant difference of the students’ speaking skill between the pretest and the posttest with significant level 0.05. This suggests that movie clip is effective to improve the students’ speaking skill in describing people.
Keywords: movie clip, speaking, describing people.
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