The Awarenes-Raising Training on Oral Communication Strategies to Improve Students' Speaking Ability
| Main Author: | T.H. Saputro; Department of English Education. Faculty of Letters. Sarjana Program. State University of Malang. Advisor: Dra.Nunung Suryati, M.Ed. |
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| Format: | PeerReviewed |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2009
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| Online Access: |
http://karya-ilmiah.um.ac.id/index.php/sastra-inggris/article/view/702 |
Daftar Isi:
- Most students find many problems in speaking. Some of the problems faced by the students in expressing their idea orally, expecially conversation, are nervousness, lack of confidence, and lack of linguistic supports including vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, etc. Those problems make communication breakdown whenever the students have to deal with English conversation. College students of Pendididkan Sejarah of State University of Malang were identified faced simillar problems. Moreover, it was found that they did not know anything about the oral communication strategies that could help them to improve their speaking ability. Therefore, it would be worthwhile to give them those strategies and raised their awaraness on the use of them. The awareness-raising training was in form of metacognitiv training. Metacognitive training in oral communication strategies has been proven to solve their problems and improve studentss' speaking ability. An action research study was conducted to answer wheter there is improvement in students' speaking ability, especially conversation skill, after the students of Pendidikan Sejarah, academic year 2008, were given metacognitive training on oral communication strategies. This study was conducted in two cycles. Each cycles consisted of four stages, namely planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. Cycles 1 consisted of three meetings while Cycles 2 consisted of two meetings. The data obtained from field notes, students ' strategy diary, conversation tasks or practice and retrospective verbal report protocol. Field notes gave the data of description of students' activity. Strategy diary provided the data of students' awareness that had to reach at least 75 percent of the total number of studentsincluded in high and moderate level to meet the criteria of succes of this study. The data of students' performance were provided by scoring the students' conversation task or practice using Oral Communication Assesment Scale. Students' score had to reach 75 percent of total number of students who got band 3 to meet the criteria of success. Lastly, the retrospective verbal report protocol provided data students' use of oral communication strategies presented in form of description. The results showed that there was improvement in students' speaking ability. It was shown by the improvement in students' awareness through the strategy diary and students' scores. The oral communication strategies were reported to be effectively used by the students. It means the metacognitive training that raised students' awareness on how they should apply oral communication strategies consciously in the conversation has been able to improve students' score of speaking performance. Based on the findings, it is suggested that English teachers or lecturers use metacognitive training on oral communication strategies in teaching speaking to help students improve their speaking ability and solve their most problems in speaking by using oral communication strategies. Besides, the practical suggestions for further study are suggested. First, it is important for the further researchers to spend one or two meetings to explain the procedure of the metacognitive training and the strategy diary, the oral communication strategies and the retrospective verbal report protocol. Second, it is recommended for further researcher to apply the training on different level of students, such as elementary, junior or senior high students. Lastly, since in this study, the researcher did not analyze deeper the retrospective verbal report protocol, further research can analyze it deeper to investigate which oral communication strategies mostly used by the students and the reasons.