INCREASING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH SOCIO DRAMA METHOD

Abstract

Abstract : Increasing Students’ Speaking Ability through Socio Drama Method. The objectives of this research was intended to find out whether teaching speaking using socio drama improve students’ speaking ability of intensive EPT Balai Bahasa Unila in 2011-2012. The researcher used speaking test as the instrument of the research and Repeated measures T-test was accomplished to analyze the data. The results showed that the students taught through Socio drama seemed to be enjoyable and interested in learning since the students could provide a good response during teaching learning process. Based on the result of the research on student of EPT Test Language Center of Lampung University skills ability to speak of the 32 students who received grades 60 above = 20 student (60%) were categorized as complete and most of the low value = 12 students ascompleted (40%). The total score of students speaking ability pretest was 1589 and the post test was 2151, so the increase was 592.