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THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD THE USE OF
ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE IN SPEAKING AT SMP
MUHAMMADIYAH 8 BATU
THESIS
By:
CHOIRUN NIZA 07360148
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD THE USE OF
ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE IN SPEAKING AT SMP
MUHAMMADIYAH 8 BATU
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
CHOIRUN NIZA 07360148
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
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This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Department
On August 6th, 2012
Approved by
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Motto
“
How perfect is, all the praise is for Allah. None has the right to
be worshipped except
Allah, and Allah is the greatest”.
The world is full of science, and language is the key to
open it for the bright future.
Dedication
My Beloved father, mother and brother who always supports me to
finish this mission until the end school day and give me everything
without reward.
All of my friends who always give me spirit.
All of people who always pray for me and give their help to finish
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah, all praises be to Allah, the most Gracious and Merciful, who has given guidance and blessing in finishing this thesis. Sholawat and Salam are also delivered to the Prophet Muhammad SAW.
The writer believes that without his blessing, she cannot do anything
because she is nobody. Frankly, this thesis would not finish without other people’s
help. In this occasion, she thanks to:
1. Her first advisor, Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M. Si and her second advisor, Nura Inayati, S.E, S.S for their suggestions, corrections, encouragements, kindness and patient that guided me in finishing this thesis.
2. Her beloved parents, Kormen and Sumiati who always pray, care, support and give the affection during writing this thesis. She can’t express with words anymore because it is not enough to reply their dedication to her. 3. Her lovely brother, Yazit Bastomi, S.T who give the motivation and
6. The Second Grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu.
7. Her friends in “kost sweet kos, kakak ayu, mbk putri, adek nia”. Thanks a lot for the friendship and togetherness.
8. Her friend Choirunnisa L.F (sandra) who give motivation and help in my thesis.
9. Her friends in English Department “07” shinta isaura, nadif, emil, agung,
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Finally, the writer realizes that this thesis is far from being perfect. Therefore, advices and critics are important to make this thesis be better.
Malang, August 2012
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CHAPTER II :REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 6
2.1 Definition of Perception ... 6
2.1.1 Kinds of Perception ... 6
2.1.2 Factor that Influences Perception... 7
2.5.1 Procedures of Role Play Technique ... 15
CHAPTER III : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 18
3.1 Research Design ... 18
CHAPTER 1V : RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ... 22
4.1 Research Finding ... 22
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1.1.2 The Students’ PerceptionToward the Use of Role Play Technique in Speaking at SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu
(Result of Questionaire)...23
Tabel 4.1.2 The students’ Perception Toward Use of Role Play Technique in Speaking at SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu……...23
4.1.3 The Students’ Perception Use of Role Play Technique in Speaking at SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu (Result of Observation)...28
4.2 Discussion ... 29
CHAPTER V : CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS………....31
5.1 Conclusions ... 31
5.2 Suggestions ... 31
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Chapter I of this research presents the topic such as background of study, statements of problem, purposes of study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follows:
1.1Background of the Study
English as an international language used as a tool of communication among most of people all over the world. English also has an important role in our daily life, especially in this globalization era. According to Sabilah (2002), when someone knows a language, he or she can speak and being understood by others who know that language. It means that we have the capacity to produce sounds that imply to certain meaning. Therefore, the people begin to learn the language.
Nowadays, English is placed as the first foreign language in Indonesia by the Indonesian government. It has been applied for the students from elementary until university. In elementary school, English has been taught as introduction to the foreign language that will be given in next steps. However, in Junior High School the students learn English deeply. It is the beginning to prepare the students to be ready in facing their future, both in academic field and in working environment.
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English skill has different objective that has to be reached in order to master English language.
Speaking is one of the basic communications that students must be mastered, it is used to express the students’ idea (Budiarti: 2005). The students are considered good in mastering English if they can speak fluently. Therefore, both student and teacher must give attention to speaking subject. Teaching speaking needs several techniques. But not all techniques are effective to make the students study well and being more interested in. The techniques usually used in teaching speaking are using pictures for assessing oral production, the oral interview, oral examination such as short talk, group discussion, and role play technique.
Role play technique is one of the techniques to increase the speaking ability. Through this technique the students will feel free to show their speaking ability even it is not good enough. In role play technique, sometimes the students pretend to be someone else, through this technique the teacher expects that the students will get involved to this character and feel free to express their idea. As the result, their speaking ability will improve. Last year, pre observation had been done by the researcher, to know the implementation of role play technique in teaching speaking. She found that the teacher in SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu implemented role play technique in speaking to make speaking subject easier and the situation in the class become more interesting.
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speaking is one of the ways to attract students’ learning speaking. Teaching technique provides an opportunity for teacher to explore her ability both to apply teaching techniques and improve the quality of teaching that make students interested in learning speaking.
Sulistyahadi (2006) in his thesis entitled “The Effect of Using Role Play in Improving Students Speaking Ability at SMPN 03 Karang Ploso Satu Atap”,
found out that using role play in teaching speaking improved the students’
speaking ability. It can be proved from the result of post test that the mean score was higher than pre-test. Besides, the researcher also compared the result of t-test value and the t-table value, the differences between the score was7.10 for t-test and 2.064 for t-table which means the t-test score was higher than t-table. It means that the use of role play in teaching speaking was effective in improving the students speaking ability.
Moreover, Susanti (2007) in her thesis entitled “Using Role Play in Teaching Speaking” found that the use of role play made the class more active and alive. In addition, the students were willing to participate without any forces from the teacher. The use of role play made the students more motivated in learning and easier to grasp the lesson.
The reasons above motivated the researcher to do a research on the
students’ perception toward the use of role play technique in teaching
speaking at SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu. Based on that background, the writer is interested in conducting this study because she thinks that it is very
important for teachers to know their students’ perception toward the use of
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1.2Statements of the Problem
Based on the background stated above, this particular study is intended to answer the questions as follows:
1. How does the teacher implement the role play technique in teaching speaking?
2. How is the students’ perception toward the use of role play technique in teaching speaking?
1.3Purposes of the Study
By knowing the statements of problem, the purposes of study are:
1. To describe how the teacher implements the use role play technique in speaking at SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu.
2. To know the students’ perception toward the use role play technique in speaking at SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu.
1.4Significance of the Study
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The study also gives significance for the next researcher as an input related to the result of this study.
1.5Scope and Limitation
There are many methods applied in the teaching speaking such as: oral interview, short talk, group discussion, question and answer, reading a blank dialogue, reading aloud and role play technique. This study is limited on the students’ perception toward the use of role play technique in teaching speaking in second year students of SMP Muhammadiyah 8 Batu.
1.6Definition of Key Terms
In order to avoid misinterpretation between the writer and the readers, it is important to explain the meaning of the key terms used in this particular study as follows:
1. Perception is the organization, identification and interpretation of information in order to represent and understand the environment.
2. Role Play is a communicative activity in which learner talks each other in different role (Tener and Green 1998: 10)
