IMPROVING VOCATIONAL STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE.

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IMPROVING VOCATIONAL STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE

A Thesis

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

By:

NURDIANA MAHDALENA SINURAT Registration Number 209121031

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN

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DECLARATION

Except where appropriately acknowledged, this thesis is my own work, has been expressed in my

own words and has not previously been submitted for assessment.

I understand that this paper may be screened electronically or otherwise for plagiarism.

Medan, February 2014 The Writer

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ABSTRACT

Sinurat, Nurdiana. Registration Number: 209121031. Improving Vocational Students’ Speaking Skill through Role Play Technique. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan. 2014

This study was attempted to improve vocational students’ speaking skill through Role

Play Technique. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of the research was class XI EK 2 SMK Negeri 1 Merdeka, Berastagi, consists of 21 students. This research was conducted in two cycles. The instruments of collecting data were diary notes, observation sheet, questionnaire sheet, interview sheet and tests. Based on the speaking test score, it was found that the students’ score kept improving from the first test to the third test. In the orientation test, the mean score was 37.66, in the first cycle test, the mean score was 48.33, and in the second cycle test, the mean score was 57.33. There was improvement of students’ achievement from 57.33-37.66 about 19.67 points. Based on the data from diary notes, observation sheet, questionnaire sheet and interview, it was found that the students agreed that Role Play technique helped to encourage them to speak, to express the language through appropriate expressions, to think that speaking is not difficult. Thus, it was found that teaching-learning process ran well. Students were active and interested in speaking in the classroom. The result of the research shows that Role Play Technique can improve vocational students’ speaking skill.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Everything needs process. Some are easy, some are not. That process finally

delivers the researcher to complete this thesis as one of the requirements for the

Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan at English Department of the Faculty of Languages and

Arts, State University of Medan. Praise to The Heavenly Father in the name of

Jesus Christ for Thy blessing continuously.

This thesis would never happen without the help of these people. Therefore, a

lot of gratitude is expressed to:

1. Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., as the Rector of State University of

Medan.

2. Dr.Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., as the Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts,

State University of Medan.

3. Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., as the Head of English Department, Faculty of

Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.

4. Rika, S.Pd., M.Hum., as the Secretary of English Department, Faculty of

Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.

5. Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M. Ed., as the Head of Study Program of English

Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.

6. Drs. Willem Saragih, Dipl. Appl.,M.Pd., as the thesis advisor who has guided

the researcher to write the thesis thoughtfully by giving his constructive

suggestions, timely and insightful comments at every stage in the preparation

of the thesis.

7. Drs. Elia Masa Gintings, M.Hum., as the academic advisor.

8. Sedek Ginting, S.Pd and Nazrah Nasution, S.Pd as the headmaster and the

English teacher of SMK Negeri 1 Merdeka, Berastagi and students of XI EK2.

9. M.Sinurat and N.br.Gultom, the researcher’s parents who always gives love, prayer, motivation, cares and encourages her to give the best.

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10.Timbul Pardamean Sinurat, Sahat Parsaulian Sinurat, Maruli Tua Sinurat, the

researcher’s brothers who give cares, motivation and point of view about the thesis.

11.Ira Magdalena Munthe, S.Pd., the researcher’s beloved sister who has helped the researcher to revise the thesis at its process successively.

12.Lasma Dewi Anita Panjaitan, S.Pd., Emma Martina Pakpahan, S.Pd., Mory

Yana Gultom, S.S., Marisi Debora, S.Pd., M.Hum. for the prayer, motivation

and suggestion when the researcher faced the difficulties.

13.CIKASU Family (Ira Munthe, Mei Siti Manullang, Irma Ginting, who has

become the collaborator in the research as well, Putri Sianturi); BAPUDI

Family (Ester Sitorus, Sanjuni Lumbantobing, Maruli Pardede); ABODA

Family (Anggreyni Tampubolon, Edo Hizkia Sinaga, Hendro Simamora,

Gatot Tampubolon)

14.Astri, Irma, Putri, Resti, Hasian as the most frequently group mates in any

assignments who has given their cares, prayers, friendship and motivation.

However, Class of DIK A and B 2009 has given the contribution as well.

15.Orli, Orde, Cory, Nurmaulida, Conny, Survey, Debora, Novika, Tini, Dewi

and Nurtini as one thesis advisor’s guidance who has ever shared information, laughter and motivation.

16.The Coordination of UKMKP UP FBS 2011 (Mory Yana, Rina, Krista, Tanti,

Dera, Riahmawani, Surya, Septaria, Betharia, Roya, Marta, Maria, Sabda,

Hotmarito, Iko); The Coordination of UKMKP UP FBS 2013 (Tanti, Bernard,

Eri, Permadi, Hasian, Marini, Maria, Iko) and a big family of UKMKP UP

FBS

This thesis still has the paucity and she would appreciate any suggestions that would enable her to do an improvement in the future.

Medan, February 2014 The researcher

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DECLARATION

Except where appropriately acknowledged, this thesis is my own work, has been

expressed in my own words and has not previously been submitted for assessment.

I understand that this paper may be screened electronically or otherwise for

plagiarism.

Medan, February 2014 The Writer

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of Study

Entering the post-modernism era, the problem of speaking still occurs.

Speaking as one way to communicate verbally is still need to be improved in the

context of secondary school students’ achievement. Many students are difficult to

speak English even though the government has created a slogan in 2009 sounds

“SMK BISA!” to motivate them. While doing her teaching training program in

SMK N 1 Merdeka in Berastagi, the researcher found that there were only four or

five of thirty eight students who were interested in learning English. She asked the

reason to them. They said that English is a boring subject. They did not speak

English because the teacher herself was seldom to do that. She taught them by

only asking them to read the book, do the exercise and drill the conversation.

There were no communication activities in order to make the students more

communicative. The curriculum demand is not fulfilled by the method used by the

teacher.

As a foreign language in Indonesia, there are four skills that should be

achieved namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Of the four skills,

speaking is the most important skill that needs to be developed in a classroom

activity. Speaking serves either a transactional function, in that its primary

purpose is to convey information and facilitate the exchange of goods and service,

or it serves an interpersonal function in that its primary purpose is to establish and

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-tions. The students are expected to have a good English communication in

speaking either in the transactional or interpersonal function. They need it to

follow the development of the world globally.

In Indonesia, there are two categories of Secondary School, namely Senior

High School and Vocational High School with two different purposes as well.

Senior High School has a goal to prepare the students to enter a university.

Meanwhile, Vocational High School has a goal to prepare the students to enter a

job field. Thus, the Vocational High School students need a specific English

lesson to reach that goal. Hutchinson and Waters (1987: 3) state that English for

specific purposes is based on designing courses to meet the learners’ needs.

Government has determined a curriculum as a guideline. In the curriculum

of KTSP 2006, it is stated that the purpose of teaching English in Vocational High

School tends to be more communicative; especially when they get a job training

(PKL). However, the fact is contrary to the expectation as it is stated above that

the curriculum demand is not fulfilled by the method used by the teacher.

Meanwhile, speaking deals with uttering words. It needs practice a lot.

According to Maxom (2009), speaking is the most important skill in English

language teaching. She also says that mastering any language without speaking it

up is impossible. In order to gain the ability of speaking, the students should

communicate the language itself.

Learning English should be fun to make the students interested. When a

class is monotonous, then the possibility of learning English will not be effective

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should run interactively. Actually, at the speaking level the emphasis of learning

should be on free communication. The teacher supervises a role play, while the

activities in the classroom are dominated by the students. The goal of playing the

role actively is that the students have more chances to use the language.

An old proverb said that practice makes perfect means the more the

students practice the words, the better improvement of speaking they get. It is very

important to create communication activities in the classroom in order to make the

students more communicative. Communication activities are the activities in

which the students are situated into a condition which requires them to use the

target language in doing something to achieve a communicative purpose.

Role play technique is a way to apply that communicative purpose in the

classroom. This technique concerns more to the problem brought in the play, not

to the ability of the students to run the play. They focus more on the content and

purpose than on the expression (Saragih, 2005: 40 as quoted in Simatupang,2007:

2). There are many things that can be achieved by the students if the teachers can

create communicative activities:

1. They can improve oral fluency.

2. They can gain confidence to use English to express their thought and

ideas.

3. They get opportunities to develop interactive skills.

4. They can gain enjoyment and motivation which is conducive to

language acquisition.

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6. They can develop monitoring skills through working together in groups

and constantly checking and revising what they are doing.

7. They can gain the valuable educational experience of working in teams

and stretching their imagination.

8. They can gain the vital skills of thinking in English.

Considering that the vocational students are mostly learning about the

topics that have something to do with social circumstances, this technique would

help to ease the process of learning speaking. With this technique, the students

will be stimulated to be active and they will receive the material better because the

learning atmosphere will be enjoyable, fun and direct them to a free

communication. This will create a natural conversation atmosphere where they

can speak what they really want to speak according to the role play.

In relation to the problem, the researcher would like to apply this

technique. Hopefully, the students will be interested to communicate in English

and get improvement in speaking.

B.The Problem of Study

Based on the background of the study, the research problem is formulated

as follows: “How does Role Play technique significantly improve vocational

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C.The Objective of Study

In line with the problem, the objective of this study is to find out the

improvement of the students’ speaking achievement by using Role Play

technique.

D.The Scope of Study

The study is focused on the students’ achievement in speaking. It is limited

to the elementary level and focused on interpersonal speaking.

In vocational school, there are three levels of competence namely novice

level, elementary level and intermediate level. There are six types of speaking;

they are imitative, intensive, responsive, transactional, interpersonal and extensive

speaking.

The researcher uses Role Play technique. This research will be conducted

through Classroom Action Research.

E.The Significance of Study

The results of this study are expected:

1. To be useful for the teacher in improving their quality of teaching speaking

and their knowledge to be creative in teaching the various English materials.

2. To be useful for the students in learning speaking.

3. To be useful for those who are interested in doing research related to this

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58 CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION A.Conclusion

After analyzing the data, the writer found that the students’ speaking skill

was improved from the cycle I to the cycle II. It can be seen from the diary

notes, questionnaire sheet and interview that showed the improvement of the

students’ achievement where the students became more interested and eager to

speak English. While conducting the research in the two cycles, the researcher

could see the improvement from the students in their participation and ability

of the students to speak up was increased. Most of them felt happy and enjoy

speaking English during the research. There was not any reluctance to speak

English anymore.

The improvement was also supported by the increasing of the mean of the

students’ scores. The mean score of the orientation test is 37.66; the mean of

the cycle I test is 48.33; and the mean of the cycle II test is 57.33. Therefore, it

can be concluded that Role Play technique can improve students’ speaking

skill.

B.Suggestion

The result of the study shows that the use of Role Play technique improves

the students’ speaking skill. These are some suggestions offered:

1. To the teacher, it is good to conduct the teaching learning process

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2. To the students, it is suggested to train and improve the speaking by

making everything in the thought expressed in the condition of relax

and happy way.

3. To those who are interested to conduct a research related to this study,

it is good to give a new concept of conducting the research with the