IMPROVING STUDENTS SPEAKING BASED ON THE MOVIE SONNY WITH A CHANCE.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’

SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT

BASED ON THE MOVIE SONNY

WITH A CHANCE

A THESIS

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

By:

Novi Andri Ananda Lubis

Registration Number: 209421033

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, the writer would like to express his greatest thanks to Allah SWT, the Almighty and Most Beneficial for Her Grace, Guidance, Praise, Honor and Mercy that has been given to her especially health and luck until this thesis could be completed. This thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements of obtain the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan (S1) at the English Department, Faculty of language and arts, State University of Medan.

This thesis could have been completed also because of guidance, encouragement, suggestions, and comments from some people for whom the writer would like to extend her sincere and special thanks 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 Language and Arts,

Vice Dean I, II, III, and all the administrative staff.

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

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

Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed, the Head of English Education for the

suggestions and administrative assistance during the completion of this thesis.

 Drs. Bachtiar, M.Pd., the Thesis consultant for the precious time spent,

valuable knowledge, assistance, and advice in correcting and supervising her thesis.

 Prof. Dr. Lince Sihombing, M.Pd., Dra. Meisuri, M.A., and Drs. Johan Sinulingga, M.Pd., thanks are given to the reviewers of his Seminar

Proposal, for their valuable input and comment enrich the quality of this thesis.

 All the lectures who have given very valuable knowledge throughs

academic years.

 Drs. Marah Gunung, the Headmaster of SMA N 1 Hutabargot, Mandailing

Natal, and Nur Liana, S.Pd for their help that allowed the writer to conduct his research in the class.

 Panigoran Lubis, and Nur Hudainah Nst, his beloved parents. And his

beloved brother Roy Parlindungan for their great love, prayers, motivation, understanding and support in finishing this thesis.

 Rico Yunanda Harahap, Elma Maranita, Siti Rina Anugrah and Nur Azizah for their spirit, helping, friendship, kindness during spending the

time in State University of Medan and his daily life.

 A special thanks to Pramudita Rizky, for her time, supports, understanding and motivation during the process of completing this thesis.

 A special thanks is also extended to his friends from Regular A, B and C

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Overall, the writer hopes this thesis can give a bit contribution to the English Education students and further pedagogical research.

Medan, November 2013 The writer,

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ABSTRACT

Lubis, Novi Andri Ananda. 209421033. Improving Students’ Speaking Based on The Movie Sonny With A Chance. A thesis. English Department, Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of Medan. 2013.

This study concerns on improving students’ speaking achievement based on the movie Sonny With A Chance. The objective of this study is to find out whether the movie Sonny With A Chance can improve the students’ achievement in speaking. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the second year student of SMA N 1 Hutabargot, Mandailing Natal. The research was conducted in two cycles. Instrument for collecting data used speaking test for quantitative data and diary notes, interview and observation sheet used for qualitative data. Based on the speaking test result,

the students’ score kept improving in every test. In orientation test, the mean score

was 62. In the test of cycle 1 the mean score was 73,3 and the mean score in the test of cycle 2 was 82, 6. The conclusion is that the movie Sonny With A Chance

can improve the students’ achievement in speaking. It is suggested that teacher should apply the movie Sonny With A Chance as one of media to improve

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4) Lyric Poetry ………. ... 22

5) Elegy ………. ... 22

8. Advantages and Disadvantages of Movie Sonny With A Chance 23 a. Advantages ……… ... 23

C.The instruments for Collecting Data... 27

D.The Procedure for Collecting Data... ... 28

CHAPTER IV THE DATA AND RESEARCH FINDING A.Data... ... 37

1. Analysis of Situation and Background ... 44

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LIST OF TABLES

Table Pages

3.1 The Teaching and Learning Process ... 29

3.2 Rubric of Speaking ... 32

3.3 The Score Guidance ... 33

3.4 The Score of Analytics Scale ... 35

4.1 The Score of Students’ Speaking ... 38

4.2 The Difficulties of Students in the First Meeting ... 39

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure Pages

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix Pages

A. Lesson Plan ... 52

B. Lesson Material ... 60

C. The Score of Students ... 61

D. Interview ... 64

E. Transcription of Test ... 67

F. Diary Notes ... 75

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.The Background of the Study

As a second or foreign language, English is not easy to study by students

in early learning. Most of students feel that English is likely to be one difficulty in

learning and feel uneasy to try it. For illustration, students feel confused when the

teacher asks them to pronounce some words in English. Besides, the students also

have difficulty in translating many words in English, because they don’t have a lot

of vocabulary.

Speaking skill is very important because speaking skill and human being

cannot be separated from each other. Speaking skill is used to express their ideas

and to communicate to other people. Most students still get hard to be a good

speaker. The problems are the first, the student feels ashamed and afraid to speak

English, so they never practice to use target language and always use mother

language in the classroom, second for the teacher; they do not use variety of

teaching technique such as visual aids. Teacher has to motivate the students to

speak English in the class and create the method of teaching, so the student will

feel relaxed, and free in using English in classroom. The teacher should be able to

make students speak English fluently.

According to Fulcher (2003:03) speaking is the verbal use of language to

communicate with others. In speaking, there is process of communication between

speaker and listener. People put ideas into words, talking about their perceptions.

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then spend the time together discussing what they saw in order to prepare for what

they want to teach.Film can also add visual context for students who are

unfamiliar with the terms used in classical literature, which helps make

understanding the story easier on students. Above all, literature is essential to the

English curriculum and movie is just another kind of tool which is meant to be

used collaboratively and not exclusively.

In learning speaking, students are expected to be able to use certain

language expression in communication. In fact, most of students are unable to do

communication. In general, some of people realize that there aresome factors

cause difficulties of speaking achievement. The internal and external factor come

from the students themselves. These concern with psychological and physical

aspect for instance the activity of memorizing or thinking weather it is inherent or

caused by other factor. External factors come out of students. It concerns with the

teaching learning method.

In the process of teaching speaking, learners think that speaking is very

difficult to be practiced. When the teacher asks the learners to present their

opinion of their ideas, orally, most of them are ashamed and afraid. Therefore,

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the bad score.teaching with movies will help the teachers engage students, vary

the teaching methods, and teach important concepts—through movies.Many

researchers who insist on using movies in a classroom can rapidly promote

cultural learning and improve a student’s listening and speaking skills.

Furthermore, audio visual movies can mobilize student’s enthusiasm for

visual learning, listening, speaking and other senses. The goals of learning

through movies are to strengthen listening, speaking and interpretation skills, and

to understand the foreign people, their customs, behaviors, values beliefs, hopes

and dreams. According to Berk, (2009:02) When people watch a movie or TV

program, superficial and even deep feelings and emotions are elicited, such as

excitement, anger, laughter, relaxation, love, whimsy, or even boredom. These

emotions are often triggered or heightened by the mood created by specific visual

scenes, the actors, and/or the background music.Language is not only a tool of

communication, but it is also a part of culture English, without adequate cultural

background, can never be fully appreciated. The role of cultural learning in the

foreign language classroom has been the concern of many teachers and scholars,

and has sparked considerable controversy.Foreign language teachers should try to

develop the students’ awareness of cultural learning as well as language

learning.Improving speaking based on the movie “Sonny With A Chance” may

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B. The Problems of the Study

Based on the background of study, the problems of the study can be

formulated in the form of questions as follows: “Is the students’ speaking

achievement improved if they are taught by using the movie “Sonny With A

Chance?”

C. The Objective of the Study

This study is intended to find out whether the movie Sonny With A

Chance media can improve the students’ achievement in speaking.

D. The Scope of the Study

In this study, the writer will choose only Group Discussion, whereas each

group will consist of 4 students.

E. The Significance of Study

The writer expects that the result of the study will be useful for :

1. English Teachers, as information which can enlarge their knowledge in

teaching speaking English

2. Students, as information which can enlarge their knowledge how to

speaki English communicatively.

CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

After analyzing the data, it was found out that the students’ achievement

increased from the test I until test III. It is shown from the improvement of the

mean of students score namely the mean of test I(62), the mean of the test II

(73.3), and the mean of the test III (82.6). it can be stated that the score

continuously improved from the test I until the test III. Therefore, in can be

concluded that improving students’ speaking achievement based on the movie

Sonny With A Chance significantly improve students’ achievement in speaking

ability.

B. Suggestions

The result of this study showed that the use of movie Sonny With A

Chance could improved students’ achievement. Therefore the following

suggestions are offered:

1. To English teachers, it is suggested to use the movie Sonny With A Chance as

one alternative in teaching speaking ability because it can improve the

students’ achievement.

2. To the students, it is suggested to be more active and having fun in class

when they are taught by using movie Sonny With A Chance

3. Because they were in grouping and got fun so that they can give, share and

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