APPLYING ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENT'S SPEAKING SKILL AT SMPN 5 KOTA KUPANG
APPLYING ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILL AT SMPN 5 KUPANG ABSTRACT Student, Supervisor1, Supervisor 2 (Meli Satiana Radja), (Theresia M.Tamelan, S.Pd.,M.App.Ling.,Ph.D), (Daniel F. Kamengko, S.Pd., M.Ed (TESOL Corresponding author’s email: [email protected] This research is entitled applying role play technique to improve students’ speaking skill at SMPN 5 Kota Kupang. The formulation of the problem in this study, namely does teaching English using a role play technique to improve student speaking skill? This research aims to find out whether teaching English using a role play technique can improve students’ speaking skill or not. In conducting the study, the researcher used quantitative method. The data was collected by using pre-experimental design with pre-test, treatment and post-test. The population in this research was all of the eighth grade students’ of SMPN 5 Kota Kupang. The researcher use cluster random sampling. The research decided to choose class VIII D, which consisted of 29 students. The instrument of this research was speaking test. To analyze the score of the students’ achievement in pre-test and post-test, the researcher used t-test analyzes. The result of the data showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. The value of t-test 12,818 was greater than the t-table 2,048 at the level of significant 0.05 and degree of freedom 28. It can be said that the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted. Means that there was a significant difference between the students’ speaking skill before in which the students got the mean score of pre-test was 1.785 and after using role play the students’ speaking skills improved in which the mean score of post-test was 2.380. So the researcher hopes to English teacher to used role play as one of technique in teaching and learning process especially in teaching speaking abilities. Keywords: Role Play, Speaking Skill, Improving