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Using the Information Gap Activity to Increase Students’ Speaking Skill at the Third Grade of MAN 1 JungcangcangPamekasan
ABSTRACT
FUQAHA’, ANSHARUL. 2015, Using the Information Gap Activity to Increase Students’ Speaking Skill at the Third Grade of MAN 1 JungcangcangPamekasan. Thesis, English Teaching and Learning Program of the State Islamic College (STAIN) Pamekasan.
Advisor: Abd. Ghofur, M.Pd
Keyword:Information Gap Activity, Speaking Skill.
Based on the researchers’ observation in the preliminary study on the teaching of speaking, the problem was found that the students’ speaking skill in the teaching and learning was very low. It was because the class was heterogeneous and the teacher used monotonous teaching activity. To cope of this problem, the researcher employed the Information gap activity.
This study tries to prove how the Information-gap activity can increase students’ speaking skill at the third grade of MAN 1 Jungcangcang, Pamekasan.The study was design to increase the students’ speaking skill by using Information gap activity at MAN 1 JungcangcangPamekasan.
The study was collaborative classroom action research in which the researcher and the collaborator worked together, the researcher acted as the teacher while the collaborator observed the students during the implementation of the strategy. This study was conducted in one cycle consisting of six meetings using the following procedures; planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The data of the study were collected through the observation checklists, field notes, and questionnaires. The subject of the study were 41 students of third grade on science 3 program MAN 1 JungcangcangPamekasan.
The findings of the study indicated that the information gap activity was successful in improving the students speaking skill. The improvement can be seen from the number of the students whose score achieved 75 were 11 students (27%) of 41 students in the preliminary test, while in their final speaking score were 26 students (63%) of 41 students who achieve 75.
With the research finding, it can be concluded that the Information gap activity has proved very effective to improve their speaking skill of the third grade of MAN 1 Jungcangcang. It suggested that English teachers apply the information gap activity to increase the students speaking skill. For the institution, the findings of the research might be used for decision making to use the information gap activity in the teaching of speaking. And for the future researcher, the finding of the research can become a good reference to conduct better researches.
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