How To Improve Students’ Speaking Skills UsingTalking Stick Strategy Of Second Grade Students Of Smp Nusantara Tuntang In The Academic Year 2017/2018

Mustamiddah, Ati (2018) How To Improve Students’ Speaking Skills UsingTalking Stick Strategy Of Second Grade Students Of Smp Nusantara Tuntang In The Academic Year 2017/2018. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Mustamiddah, Ati’. 2018.How to improve students speaking skills using talking stickof Second Grade Students of SMP Nusantara Tuntang in the Academic Year 2017/2018. A Graduating Paper. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. State Institute for Islamic Studies Salatiga. Counselor: Hanung Triyoko, S.S, M.Hum, M.Ed Key Words: Talking Stick, Speaking Skills The Research is mainly aimed to improve students’ speaking skill using Talking Stick strategyat the Second Grade Students of SMP Nusantara Tuntang in the Academic Year of 2017//2018.The subject of this research consists of 24 students in VIII class. The objectives of the study are: (1) To find out the significance different students speaking score after and before taught by Talking Stick. (2) To find out the difficulties during applying Talking Stick in speaking class. (3) To find out the teachers’ cope the difficulties in applying Talking Stick in speaking class. The methodology of the research is Classroom Action Research (CAR). It was conduct two cycles. Each cycle contained four steps there were planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The data are collected through observation, test and documentation. The result shows that (1) The passing grade is 70. The number of the students who pass the passing grade in the pre-test cycle 1 is 29.16% and in post-test is 62.5%. While in the second cycle, pre-test is 58.33% and the post-test is 95.83%. The improvement of the students writing ability using Talking Stick is significant. It can be seen from the T-test the first cycle and the second cycle is higher than the t-table. The T-Table is 2.069. The first cycle, the mean of the post-test is 67.70, is higher than the mean of the pre- test 60.41. while the T-test is 8.1. In the second cycle, the mean of the post-test is 80.41, is higher than the mean of the pre- test 67.91. The result of T-test is 12.01. The data shows that the result of the T-test in first cycle and second cycle is higher than the T-table, the T-table is 2.069. It means that using the Talking Stick can Improve the Students Speaking skills. (2)The difficulties of using talking stick method is in the time management because the applying talking stick strategy in the speaking class is need more time, it is need extra time to finish all students to speak if the students are not brave and not confident to speak in the class. (3)To cope the difficulties of applying talking stick in the speaking class the teacher apply some treatments, the first cycle is give each student the text so every students hold their own text and they focus to the text it can make teacher manage the time better, second is the teacher need to burn the students spirit in the speaking class so they feel more confident and more comfortable in the speaking class.

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