Improving Students’ Speaking Skill through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) Technique (A Classroom Action Research for the Second Grade Students of SMPN 2 MERTOYUDAN in the Academic Year of 2017/2018)

Khosidah, Isti Wulan (2017) Improving Students’ Speaking Skill through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) Technique (A Classroom Action Research for the Second Grade Students of SMPN 2 MERTOYUDAN in the Academic Year of 2017/2018). Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstrak : Khosidah, Isti Wulan. 2017. IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION (FGD) TECHNIQUE (A Classroom Action Research of the Second Grade of SMPN 2 Mertoyudan in the Academic Year of 2017/2018). Counselor: Mashlihatul Umami, M.A. Keywords: Focus Group Discussion (FGD), Improving Speaking Skill The researcher conducts the study to increase the students’ speaking skills through Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The aim of this research are (1) to find out whether the implementation of Focus Group Discussion (FGD) technique can improve students’ speaking skill or not and (2) to find out how far the use of Focus Group Discussion (FGD) technique improves students’ speaking skill for the second grade students of SMPN 2 Mertoyudan. The research design of this study is Classroom Action Research. It includes two cycles; each cycle consists of planning, action, observation and reflection. The subjects of the research are 33 students in the second grade of SMPN 2 Mertoyudan. The result of this research shows that there is an improvement of students’ speaking skill using Focus Group Discussion (FGD) technique. It can be seen from T-test calculation in cycle 1 is 13.05 and cycle 2 is 6.31. The improvement of the study is showed when the researcher conducts cycle 2. The passing grade is 76, and the target of the passing grade is 80%. The result of the post-test of cycle 2 is 100% from students. All of students can pass the passing grade, so the researcher stops the study. This indicates that by applying focus group discussion technique, the speaking skill of students can be improved.

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