Indah Puspitasari
English Education Department, STKIP PGRI Pacitan
email: [email protected]
Abstract:
This action research aimed to improve students’ English speaking skill of PGSD students in STKIP PGRI Pacitan through communicative activities and to describe the classroom situation when communicative activities are implemented in the speaking class. The research method used in this research is a classroom action research, which conducted in two cycles. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire, observation, interview, document analysis and tests. The researcher conducted the test before research (pre-test) and after implementing communicative activities (post test 1 and 2). The mean scores of each test were compared to know the students improvements in speaking ability. The improvement can be seen from the improvement of the mean score of pre-test (50), post test of cycle 1 (70) and the cycle 2 (77). Besides, the improvement of the classroom situation includes: 1) the class was more alive because the students participate actively; 2) there was an equal participation during the speaking class; 3) the students were motivated to speak English than Indonesian; 4) the students’ interaction improved significantly.
Keywords: Speaking skill, communicative activities, classroom action research.
Abstrak:
Penelitian tindakan kelas ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris pada mahasiswa PGSD di STKIP PGRI Pacitan melalui communicative activities dan untuk mendiskripsikan keadaan ketika communicative activities dilaksanaan di kelas. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian tindakan kelas, yang dilaksanakan dalam dua tindakan. Dalam pengumpulan data, peneliti menggunakan kuesioner, observasi, wawancara, analisis dokumen dan tes. Peneliti melakukan test sebelum penelitian (pre-test) dan setelah implementasi communicative activities (post-test 1 dan 2). Nilai rata-rata pada tiap test dibandingkan untuk mengetahui peningkatan siswa dalam kemampuan berbicara. Peningkatan dapat dilihat dari nilai rata-rata di pre-test (50), post-test pada tindakan 1 (70) dan di tindakan 2 (77). Disamping itu, ada peningkatan pada situasi kelas termasuk: 1) kelas menjadi lebih hidup karena para siswa secara aktif berpartisipasi; 2) terdapat keterlibatan yang sama selama pelaksanaan kelas berbicara; 3) para siswa termotivasi untuk berbicara dalam bahasa Inggris daripada bahasa Indonesia; 4) interaksi siswa meningkat secara signifikan.
Kata kunci: Kemampuan berbicara, communicative activities, penelitian tindakan kelas.
