29Aug 2017

THE USE OF ROLE PLAY ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL OF THE GRADE 12 STUDENTS OF TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE OF ESCOLA SECUND' RIA GERAL 4 DE SETEMBRO UNAMET DILI IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017.

  • S.Pd. M. App. Ling. Ph.D. Master Program in English Language Education Program.
  • Nusa Cendana University Jln.Panglima Besar Sudirman Kupang, NTT ? Indonesia.
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This thesis is entitled, ?The use of role play activities to improve speaking skill of grade 12 students of technology science, Escola Secundaria Geral 4 de Setembro UNAMET Dili, in the school year 2017.? The aims of this study were to find out whether the role play activities improve studentas? speaking skills. This study employs classroom action- research consisting of two cycles. The treatment of cycle one employed actions: (1) building schemata of dialog context; (2) Preteaching new vocabulary; (3) Drilling difficult sounds and word pronunciation. (4) Performing role play by reciting dialog before the class by pairs of students. (5) Encouraging and motivating students continuously. After the treatment the results show less enthusiasm of students in class participation and the mean score of speaking test is 67.82. Because the result is not satisfactory, the treatment continued to cycle two, with the following innovative actions: (1) Building schemata through extenssion of context. (2) Pre-teaching new vocabulary with examples. (3) Drilling difficult sounds with contrastive analysis technique.(4) Performing role-play through guided substitution towards free speaking. (5) Continuing motivating students through verbal and non-verbal reinforcement. The results show that the students? participation in doing the English class increased dramatically with full enthusiam and this has contributed to the increase of their mean score of speaking test which is 71.63. Although the score is not the best score, the study has been cosidered successful in terms of class participation.


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[Norberto Da Costa. Advisors, Klemens Kolo. Mat and Santri E. P. Djahimo. (2017); THE USE OF ROLE PLAY ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL OF THE GRADE 12 STUDENTS OF TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE OF ESCOLA SECUND' RIA GERAL 4 DE SETEMBRO UNAMET DILI IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 1801-1820] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5247      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5247