IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH BAMBOO
DANCE TECHNIQUE
(A Classroom Action Research at Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 4 Purwokerto in Academic Year 2014/2015)
A THESIS
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting S. Pd. Degree of Education
in the English Education Department
Arranged by:
LISTIYORINI
1101050054
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOKERTO
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.
Alhamdulillah, all praises are expressed to Allah for the strength and the blessing given to me in completing this thesis so that the writer could accomplish the thesis as a partial fulfillment of the requirements of S. Pd degree in Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto.
The writer wishes to express great appreciation and special thanks to: 1. Drs. Ahmad, M.Pd as the Dean of the Teacher Training and Education Faculty
who has permitted me for doing the thesis.
2. Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum as the head of English Department.
3. Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum as the supervisor who had guided, given suggestion, and corrected my thesis to be better.
4. All the lecturers in English Department for the dedication in giving the knowledge to me and suggestion for my thesis.
5. The headmaster of SMAN 4 Purwokerto, who had allowed to me to conduct CAR (Classroom Action Research).
6. Widiyanti Agustina, S.Pd, as the English teacher at tenth graders of SMAN 4
Purwokerto who helped me in doing CAR (Classroom Action Research). 7. Tenth grade of MIA 2 students of SMAN 4 Purwokerto who had participated
in the research.
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Last but not least, the writer hopes that this thesis can give valuable contributions to the improvement of education. The writer believes that this thesis has still many weaknesses. Therefore, the writer accepts constructive suggestion and criticism to make this thesis better.
Wassalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.
Purwokerto, 13 February 2015
DEDICATION
From the deepest my heart, I would like to present this masterpiece to:
Allah SWT for love, mercy, blessing, and kindness. Thanks God for
all the patience.
My beloved parents,, thanks for everything that you give to me.
I’m very proud of being your daughter. I can learn how to live
strong from you. Without you, I’m nothing here. Thanks for your
pray and support. I do love U.
My supervisor, Mr. Pudiyono who gave me guidance and suggestion
to finish this research. Thank you very much.
My special one My fiance Sutikno Agus P. thank you for your
support and advice, I love you.
My friends in B class especially for Intan, Peggy, Ade, Alif, Semi,
Hudri and Class in English department ‘11. Thanks for our
togetherness and keep spirit guys…
Last but not least, all people who helped the writer in finishing
this little creation especially to mb Dias Priyanto. Thank you for
being my guidance.
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Don’t wait till Tomorrow What You Can Do Today
Last Time is Never Found
Where There is a Will, There is a Way
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LIST OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENT
Page
TITLE ... i
APPROVAL ... ii
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP... iv
ACKNOWLEDGMENT ... v
DEDICATION ... vii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ... 1
A. The Background of the Study... 1
CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW ... 7
A. Speaking ... 7
1. The Definition of Speaking ... 7
2. The Importance of Speaking ... 8
3. The Component of Speaking ... 9
4. Teaching Speaking ... 12
B. Bamboo Dance Technique ... 13
1. The Definition of Bamboo Dance ... 13
2. The Definition of Bamboo Dance Technique ... 14
3. The Advantages of Bamboo Dance Technique ... 15
4. The Steps of Bamboo Dance Technique ... 15
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5. The Description of Bamboo Dance Steps ... 16
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 18
A. The Method of Research ... 18
B. The Setting of the Research ... 18
C. The Subject of Research... 19
D. The Research Design... 19
E. The Procedure of the research ... 21
F. The Technique for Collecting Data ... 22
G. The Technique of Data Analysis ... 26
H. The Criteria of Action Success ... 28
CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION ... 29
A. Result... 31
B. Discussion ... 48
CHAPTER V CONSLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 54
A. Conclusion... 54
B. Suggestion ... 55 REFERENCES
LIST OF TABLES
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Table 1 Schedule of Research ... 19
Table 2 Observation List of Students’ Activities ... 23
Table 3 Observation List of Teacher’s Activities ... 24
Table 4 Questionnaire of the Research ... 25
Table 5 The Result of Pre Observation ... 30
Table 6 The Observation Result of Students’ Activities in Cycle 1 ... 35
Table 7 The Observation Result of Teacher’ Activities in Cycle 1 ... 36
Table 8 The Result of Evaluation Cycle 1 ... 37
Table 9 The Result of Students’ Activity in Cycle 2 ... 44
Table 10 The Observation Result of Teacher Activities ... 45
Table 11 The Result of Evaluation... 46
Table 12 The Result of Questionnaire ... 48
Table 13 The Result of the Test In Cycle 1 & 2 ... 49
Table 14 Observation Result of Students’ Activities ... 50
Table 15 The Result of Students’ Questionnaire ... 5
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LIST OF FIGURES
Page Figure 1 Kemmis and Mc Taggart Action Research Model ... 20
ABSTRACT
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH BAMBOO
DANCE TECHNIQUE
(A Classroom Action Research at 10th Grade of SMAN 4 Purwokerto in Academic Year 2014/2015)
By: LISTIYORINI
11OIO5OO54
The CAR was aimed at improving the students’ speaking ability through Bamboo Dance Technique. The Classroom Action research was done at SMAN 4 Purwokerto with 32 students of class 10th MIA 2 in academic year 2014/2015 as the subject of the research. The research was done on Jan 2015. The writer worked collaboratively with English teacher of SMAN 4 Purwokerto. The CAR was done based on the Kemmis and Mc. Taggart’s CAR design. The writer took two cycles with four actions (two actions in each cycle). Then, the result of the action was reflected to determine the next step.
The data were collected through observation, test and questionnaire. From the result of the data analysis, it could be proved that the Bamboo Dance technique could improve the students speaking ability. It could be seen from the students’ result in post test one was 70.47. It improved in cycle two, in post test two: 75.78. So, the improvement from post test one to post test two was 26.30%. Besides that, the research result could be seen from the observation result. The result of observation showed that their activities were good. The average students’ observation in cycle 1 was 41.41%; in cycle 2 was 62.31%. So, the improvement from both was 20.90%. It indicated that Bamboo Dance technique motivated the students to join in teaching learning process. Furthermore, this research was also supported by the result of questionnaire, which was 89.29%. It indicated that most of the students gave positive response toward Bamboo Dance Technique and also showed that they were more interested in speaking class because they could speak better than they had done before CAR.
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