Improving Students Speaking Ability The Use of Information Gap Activities
Daftar Isi:
- The problem is “How can Information Gap actvities improve the eighth grade students’ speaking ability at SMP N 2 Jelbuk in the 2015/2016 academic year?” and the objective of this research referring to the research problem is to know how information gap activities can improve students’ speaking ability at SMP N 2 Jelbuk in the 2015/2016 academic year. The design of this research is classroom action research. The research subject is VIII A class which is consist of 38 students and to obtain the research data, speaking test and observation were used. In conducting this research, there are four components of speaking ability in teaching speaking. They are fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. In order to analyze the data students’ speaking score, percentage formula is used. Information gap improved the students’ speaking ability in two cycles. The result of the research is the implementation of cycle 1 was not successful yet, the students’ speaking mean score was 52.73 and the percentage of students who got ≥70 was only 27.6%. For the cycle 2 was 71.34 mean score, and 79.36% students who got ≥70. It can be concluded that, after teaching english speaking by using information gap activity of eighth grade students at SMP N 2 Jelbuk is improved.