IMPROVING STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING THROUGH BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE.

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IMPROVING

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING

THROUGH BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE

A THESIS

Submitted to Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

By:

DEFRIYANTI ZIRALUO

Reg. Number: 209121011

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, the writer gives the greatest thanks to the almighty

God, Jesus Christ, most merciful for the opportunity, health and blessing given to

her that was enabled her to complete writer’s thesis in partial fulfillment of the

requirements for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan at English Department of

Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan (UNIMED).

The writer got assistances and supported during completing her thesis. The

writer would like to express her deepest gratitude and appreciation to:

 Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the rector of State University of Medan

 Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of faculty of Languages and Arts

 Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd, the Head of English Literature Department

 Prof. Dr. Lince Sihombing, M.Pd., as the writer’s great advisor, who has given so many supports, patience, guidance and advices during the process of accomplishing this thesis

 Dra. Sri Juriaty Ownie. M.A., as the writer’s Academic Advisor and all the lecturers of English Department

 Beloved father, S. Ziraluo, S.Pd and lovely mother, Ag. Lase, S.Pd who have patiently given moral, their prayer, spiritual help, advises and financial support. Writer’s beloved brother and sister, Defriyaman Ziraluo and Triyanis Ziraluo

 Writer’s special lovely friends, Lasri Sitanggang and CDRW (Crystian, Rini and Winda), writer’s lovely classmates, Dik B Regular ’09 (especially for Crystian, Rini, Winda, Ellis, orli, Nila, Puspita, Ida, Irma, Dayfreeri, Mediana and Yusniah), and all of writer’s friends in UK-KMK St. Martinus Unimed, Gelora choir(especially for Gend, b’Lian, Mawar, Sari, Maria), writer’s lovely friends in her boarding house, Lini, Avolen, Helena, Fera, Rina, k’Tio, k’Erika, and Yulia and unidentified nice friends (Dwi, Kiki Maria, Resti, Meli, and Sofia) for every single help, support and love that mean a lot to the writer

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 Drs. F. Manalu, the headmaster of SMA Swasta Katolik Budi Murni 3 Medan , Mrs. D. Siallagan S.Pd, the collaborator doing the research, and all the teachers and students who had helped the writer for collecting the data for her research.

Last but not least, the writer extends gratitude for those who cannot be

mentioned here, that give contribution on the writer’s life. May God be with them

all the time.

Medan, October 2013

The Writer

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ABSTRACT

Ziraluo, Defriyanti. Improving Students’ Achievement in Speaking Through Brainstorming Technique. A Thesis. English Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State University of Medan. 2013.

The objective of this study is to find out whether Brainstorming Technique can

improve students’ Achievement in speaking. This study was conducted by using

classroom action research. The subject of this research was the second year students of SMA Swasta Katolik Budi Murni 3 Medan. The research was conducted in two cycles. The first cycle was three meetings and the second cycle was two meetings. The instruments for collecting data used speaking test for quantitative data and used diary notes, questionnaires sheet, interview and observation sheet for quantitative data. Based on the speaking test result, the

students’ score kept improving in every test. In orientation test, the mean score was 47,8. In the test of cycle 1 the mean score was 59,2 and the mean score in the test of cycle 2 was 70,1. In line with the data, it was found that the Brainstorming

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 59

A. Conclusion ... 59

B. Suggestion ... 59

REFERENCES ... 60

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LIST OF TABLES

Table

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2.1 Assessment in Speaking Test 11

2.2 Expressing asking and giving opinion 28

4.1 The Score of Students’ Speaking Test 52

4.2 Comparison of the Students’ Score in Three Speaking Tests 54

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LIST OF APPENDIX

APPENDIX PAGES

A Lesson Plan 62

B Students’ Dialogue Transcription 82

C Students’ Score

89

D Observation Sheet 93

E Diary Notes 95

F Interview 99

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

After analyzing the data, it was found that the students’ speaking achievement increased from

the pre-test until to the last test. It is supported by the mean of the pre-test, test cycle I and test

cycle II. It can be stated that the score continuously improved from the pre-test until to the third

test. Therefore, it can be concluded that brainstorming technique can improved students’

speaking achievement.

B. Suggestion

The result of the study shows that the use of brainstorming technique improves the

students’ speaking achievement in speaking. These following suggestions are offered:

1. To English teacher, it is better to use brainstorming technique especially in teaching

speaking because by applying this technique students are active in teaching and learning

process, because in this way of learning, the students should share their opinion or their

argumentations bravely, more active and be critical. It can help the teacher in monitoring

and encouraging the students so that the students can comprehend the material easily.

2. To the students of university, it is suggested to use relevant topic to conduct further research

by using brainstorming technique.

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