The Influence of Community Interaction Activities in Learning Speaking Skills (A Pre-Experimental Research at the Eleventh Grad Students' of SMA Somba Opu)", under the thesis of the English Education Department the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Makassar Muhammadiyah University Under the supervision of Hj. This research aimed to find out the improvement of speaking accuracy and speaking fluency through the use of community interaction activities. The results of this research showed that the Community Interaction Activities method improved students' speaking skills focusing on accuracy (vocabulary and pronunciation) and fluency.
It has been proven that the score of the students' scores in the post-test was higher than the score of the students in the pre-test. This showed that H1 was accepted, and H0 was rejected, and there was a significant difference in students' speaking ability before and after using Community Interaction Activities. It was concluded that using Community Interaction Activities can improve students' speaking skills.
Ummi Kherati Syam, S.Pd.,M.Pd, the Head of English Education Department in FKIP UNISMUH Makassar, who provided valuable authorities and suggestions to make this thesis. Harun Gani, the headmaster of SMA Somba Opu Kabupaten Gowa and Minarti, S.Pd the teacher of English and all the students of SMA Somba Opu Kabupaten Gowa 2017/2018, especially for the second class who sacrificed their time and activities to be the test of this research.
INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Research Problem
- Objective of the Research
- Significance of the Research
- Scope of the Research
Because if the students do not have vocabulary, they will have problems to understand what another means. Another one is pronunciation, if the students have good pronunciation, they can help the speaking process to go well. The students still lack the correct application of grammatical rules, the appropriate and word choice and meaning, and the appropriate (acceptable) pronunciation”.
Based on the above explanation, students need another way or method to practice the language. The researcher will focus his research using community interaction activities to teach speaking skill to eleventh grade students of SMA Somba Opu. To find out the use of community interaction activities improve students' speaking accuracy in eleventh grade students‟ of SMA Somba Opu.
To find out the use of community interaction activities improve students' speaking fluency in eleventh grade students‟ of SMA Somba Opu. The teacher can be easy to control and manage the students so that the goals are achieved.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
- Community Interaction Activities
- Concept of Community Interaction Activities
- Criteria for Community Interaction
- Example of Interaction Activities
- Speaking
- The Concepts of Speaking
- Criteria of Speaking
- Types of Spoken Language
- Assessing Speaking
- Conceptual Framework
- Hypothesis of the Research
The implementation of community interaction activities makes all the students become more active in the teaching and learning process. Community interaction activities are able to make a good interaction between one student to another. Community interaction activities teach the students to know how to be good teamwork in group discussions.
Community interaction activities can help students become more confident and stop being afraid or even nervous. Hanna in Fitriani states that the selection and gradation of words should be done according to linguistic principles to provide students with an unlimited correctly spelled writing vocabulary. One factor influencing students' speaking skills is functional grammar. The frequency of student activity is that sometimes students want to talk to other people, but they lack functional grammar.
The treatment that is given in the research process is evaluated the interest of the students and the effectiveness of using the Method in teaching speaking on accuracy and fluency. The use of Community Interaction Activities can improve the speaking ability of eleventh grade students of SMA Somba Opu.
RESEARCH METHOD
- Research Design
- Variables and Indicators
- Population and Sample
- Research Instrument
- Procedure of Collecting Data
- Technique of Data Analysis
The teacher gave the test in pretest and posttest to understand the improvement of students' speaking ability. The table above shows that there was an improvement in the students' speaking accuracy from the pre-test to the post-test. The table above shows that there was improvement in students' speaking fluency from pre-test to post-test.
The students' average score on the pre-test was (50) and increased in the post-test, which was categorized as quite good (71). The graph above shows that the improvement rate of students' speaking skills after the treatment with the community interaction activities method was higher than before. This was proven by the improvement in students' speaking skills from pre-test to post-test (50) (71).
This was proven by the students' improvement in speaking accuracy and fluency (25-42). The improvement of the students' speaking in terms of vocabulary The use of community interaction activities made the students. As a result, the average score of the students' proverb in the pre-test was still low or poor.
The above explanation indicated that the use of the community interaction activities can improve students' vocabulary. Improving students' speech in terms of pronunciation The use of community interaction activities made students'. The above explanation indicates that the use of the community interaction activities can improve students' pronunciation.
Improving students' speaking skills through community interaction activities (a classroom action research in the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 5 Surakarta in academic year 2014/2015).
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
Findings
The impact of the Community Interaction Activities method on improving students' speaking accuracy was the treatment of vocabulary and pronunciation. The pre-test and post-test score was improved which was 18.64% for vocabulary and pronunciation was 32. The above table proves that using the method of community interaction activities in the teaching and learning process can improve the accuracy of the students' speech after receiving the money. -test and post-test standard result is achieved.
The above table proved that the use of community interaction activities in teaching and learning processes can improve students' speaking fluency, after achieving the score (42%). The data analysis of the influence of speech accuracy in eleventh grade students of SMA Somba Opu shows that the percentage was 25%. The influence of fluency in the eleventh grade students of SMA Somba Opu shows that the percentage was 42%.
The t-test analysis was used to find the significant difference of pre-test and post-test students' score. The above table shows the comparison between students' t-test and t-table to improve speaking accuracy and speaking fluency after using community interaction activities. It can be concluded that there was a significant difference between the students' speaking ability scores before and after using community interaction activities.
This also means that the null hypothesis (Ho): The use of community interaction activities does not affect the improvement of students' speaking ability in the eleventh grade of SMA Somba Opu students in the academic year 2017/2018 and the alternative hypothesis is rejected . H1) the use of community interaction activities is effective in improving students' speaking skills in eleventh grade students' of SMA Somba Opu in the academic year 2017/2018 was accepted.
Discussion
H1) the use of community interaction activities is effective in improving the speaking skills of the students in the eleventh grade of SMA Somba Opu in academic year 2017/2018 was accepted. Table 4.1 indicated that the students' pronunciation in the post-test was greater than in the pre-test (66 > 50). It means that using community interaction activities in teaching speaking skills can improve students' speaking skills.
Community interaction activities were interesting and beneficial for students learning English as a foreign language because they can improve students' speaking skills. Community interaction activities method improves students' fluency in eleventh grade students of SMA Somba Opu. The use of community interaction activities method could significantly improve students' speaking skills in terms of vocabulary handling accuracy, pronunciation and fluency in eleventh grade students of SMA Somba Opu.
Therefore, it is strongly recommended to be used in teaching English speaking in the classroom in order to improve students' achievement. Using poster presentation to improve the speaking skills of second year students of SMA 1 Sinjai Barat.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
Suggestion
Based on the study about the use of Community Interaction Activities Method is effective in making students active in speaking English in the classroom, the researcher is able to find more research about the use of Community Interaction Activities Method in other schools. such as junior high school or senior high school with larger population.
