JOURNEY : Journal of English Language and Pedagogy
Vol 1 No 1 (2018): September 2018

THE USE OF “IDENTITY PARADE” GAME AS A STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL IN DESCRIBING PEOPLE AT SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPI HASANUDDIN DAU MALANG

Lestari, Rizky Fitri (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Sep 2018

Abstract

Speaking is the most fundamental  skill  in learning language. Unfortunately the researcher found the students’ speaking problem when she conducted preliminary study in SMP Hasanuddin. Therefore, the researcher decided to solve the problem by conducting Classroom Action Research (CAR) using “Identity Parade” game technique. It consists of four steps in 2 cycles, there are: planning of the action, implementing, observing, and reflecting of the action. The subject of this research were 17 students at eighth grade (VIIIB) . The instruments of this research were speaking test, observation check-list and questionnaire. The result of the the speaking test in this study described as; the students who passed the standard score in the preliminary study improved from 43.75% to 71.43% at the cycle 1 and 86.67% at the end of cycle 2. This case shows that there are significant improvement in students’ speaking skill and the learning process was stopped, because the score had met the minimum passing grade which is 75 %. Therefore, “Identity Parade” game had been proved that it could be one of teaching technique to improve the eighth graders’ speaking skill in describing people at SMPI Hasanuddin Dau Malang.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

journey

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journey is a journal developed by English Education Department of IKIP Budi Utomo focusing on receiving the creative and intelectual products of lecturers, researchers, and practitioners on the field of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature. It is epected that this journal will be ...