THE IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH USING ROLE PLAY OF GRADE VIII STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 2 SIBORONGBORONG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

Abstract

This study tells about the improvement of students achievement in speaking for VIII grade students at SMP Negeri 2 Siborongborong by using Role Play method . Role play is the method that help the teacher to relate between the materials with the real situation and invited the students to make a relation between their knowledge with how to do it their lives . Role play effect to improve student's speaking skills and make students more active and know the meaning of what they learned to their lives . This research was conducted by applying Classroom Action Reseach in two cycles , that is cycle I and cycle II.The target score of the minimal mastery level criteria or KKM of English lesson was 75 (seventy-five). Each of the cycle was done in four stages , namely plan , action ,observation and reflection task performance . The problem was found in cycle I , some of students there still have difficulties in speaking and bored learn English . In cycle II , all sudents feel enjoy and happy , it means that they have an improving of their speaking . The subject of this study was one class in the VIII grade students at SMP Negeri 2 Siborongborong . There are 32 students that participated in this study . The techniques of analysis data were quantitative and qualitative data.The quantitativedata were taken from test, the test consist of pretest and postest,While qualitative data were taken from observation and interview, The result of quantitative data obtained that the score of students improved from pretest, cycle I and cycle II, in the pre-test the student mean 56,87 and the students who passed the KKM were 3 students of 32  students or 9,37%. In the post-test cycle I the students mean was 60.93 and the students who passed KKM were 6 students  of 32 students or 18,75%  and the post-test  cycle II the students mean was 77.96 and the students who passed KKM were 25 studens of 32 students or 78,12% . The result of qualitative data described that use of Role Play to improve the students ' speaking skills.