Peningkatan Keterampilan Berbicara dalam Bahasa Inggris melalui Penerapan Teknik Role-Play di Kelas

Abstract

This study aims to determine how much role-play techniques can improve students' speaking skills. The researcher appointed the students of class XI at SMAN 9 Pekanbaru as the object of research. This research focuses on speaking skills especially to improve vocabulary so that students are able and confident speaking English by using role play techniques applied to students. The theoretical foundation used in this research is a behavioristic theory, this research uses a communicative approach that aims to make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and to develop techniques for teaching language skills. This research was carried out in the form of classroom action research consisting of two cycles and each cycle consisted of four stages, namely, planning, implementation, observation, and reflection.Before the learning was carried out, an initial test was given to determine the initial ability of students in speaking ability so that the scores obtained in the initial test could be compared with cycles I and II after being given learning. The results of the quantitative data show that the role play technique can improve students' speaking ability, especially in class XI students at SMAN 9 Pekanbaru. This can be seen from the results obtained by students when given a test and an increase during the role play technique is applied. The average score obtained by students in the initial test was 72% scored below 70 which was in the very poor category. After being given learning in cycle I, the average value of students increased to 70% of students achieving a score ≥ 70 in the good category. In cycle II, the average value of students increased to 23 students (92%) managed to get a score ≥ 70 and remained in the good category.