THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ONE-WAY IMPROMPTU SPEECH EXCERCISES IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ORAL ABILITY AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 6 MATARAM IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/2017
| Main Author: | Ashidiqi, Fajar |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.unram.ac.id/139/1/E1D%20012%20016.pdf http://eprints.unram.ac.id/139/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This study is aimed to know the students’ oral ability and to observe wether the use of impromptu speech exercises can be effective or not in improving students’ oral ability at the eighth grade of SMPN 6 Mataram in academic year of 2016/2017. This study takes experimental as the research method. Two distinguished classes at the eighth grade students of SMPN 6 Mataram are set as the sample of experimental and control group of this study. The ways the writer collects the data are by giving a pre-test, implementing the treatment and going for a post-test, then the last, the writer goes for counting the data to find the significant effect of applying impromptu speech exercises to improve students’ oral ability. The data obtained are quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data are obtained by assessing the students’ speaking test scores in both pre-test and post-test. Meanwhile, Qualitative data are obtained by considering students’ speaking script from pre-test and post-test. Based on the result of this study, it shows that impromptu speech exercises are not giving significant effect to students’ oral ability. Based on the quantitative data, the data shows students’ oral ability is not dramatically increased. The pre-test stated students’ mean score is 42.89 point and the post-test is 47.26 point, in this case the improvement of students’ oral ability in mean score is only 4.37 point. Further, the role significance posits only 3.25% significant. Based on qualitative data, the students’ speaking script shows little improvement in terms of vocabulary mastery and speaking activeness.