TEACHING SPEAKING ENGLISH THROUGH ROLE PLAY AT THE THIRD GRADE OF SMAN

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menemukan apakah role play dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa dan untuk mengetahui aspek berbicara yang paling meningkat dalam pengajaran menggunakan role play. Subjek terdiri dari 31 siswa di kelas XII IPA 2 di SMAN 6 Bandar Lampung. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa teknik ini dapat memperbaiki kemampuan berbicara siswa dan terlihat bahwa aspek kelancaran berbicara adalah yang paling meningkat di dalam penelitian ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain one group pretest posttest. Terdapat dua penilai untuk menilai pertunjukan siswa. Repeated measure t-test digunakan untuk menganalisis data kuantitatif menggunakan SPSS(16.0). Hasil menyimpulkan bahwa terdapat adanya perbedaan kemampuan berbicara siswa secara signifikan pada level 0.05 karena t-ratio lebih besar darit-table (10.865 > 2.093), kemampuan berbicara siswa meningkat setelah diajarkan melalui teknik role play, dan aspek berbicara yang paling meningkat adalah aspek kelancaran berbicara.

The aims of this research were to find out whether role play can improve the students` speaking ability, and to find out the aspect of speaking which improve the most after implementation of role play in teaching speaking. The subject consisted of 31 students in XII IPA 2 class of SMAN 6 Bandar Lampung. The result showed that this technique can improve students` speaking ability and the researcher could see that fluency was the aspect of speaking which improved the most. The research used one group pretest posttest design. There were two raters to judge the students` speaking performances. Repeated measure t-test was used to analyze the quantitative data and the hypothesis testing was computed by using SPSS(16.0). The result concluded that there was a significant difference on level 0.05 because t-ratio more than t-table (10.865 > 2.093), students` speaking ability improved after they were taught by using role play technique, and the aspect of speaking which improved the most is fluency.

Keywords : improvement, role play, speaking, teaching speaking