Improve Students' Speaking Skill Through Role Play
Improve Students' Speaking Skill Through Role Play
Improve Students' Speaking Skill Through Role Play
Introduction
1.1 Background
and knowledge to each other. At present time, English has become a widely used
language in the world, thus it considered as a global language. Its influence can be
seen in the way that most of the countries or communities in the world use English
possibly will led to a better future, especially for students; it can help them to
There are four language skills in English, and like any other languages,
speaking is the skill that mainly used in daily communication. Trask (1999) stated
usage of speaking skill need at least 2 persons to be such meaningful and relevant
English only in school yet with limited duration. Not to mention, those who are in
the remote areas also do not have adequate resources to learn English. For country
like Indonesia, where English is still taught as second language, productive skills
like speaking is one of the skills that difficult to be improved. Although the students
learn English at their school, probably they have insufficient chance to practice their
speaking skill. There are also some factors that make speaking using English face
this situation in most of the areas in Indonesia such as anxiety, lack of confidence,
An observation in class VII-A at XYZ Junior High School found such kind
of problem where some of the students seemed passive during speaking activities.
There were 27 students in the class and only 17 students that actively involved in
There were several ways done in order to investigate the causes of the
problem. On the early observation, it was by taking notes on all major and minor
Lesson. After that, it was through an interview with the English teacher to validate
the findings. In order to gather further information, students questionnaire also had
been used, which contains several points related to the problems found. Based on
all the data collected, it can be concluded that there are two main causes of the
problem. Firstly, some students do not feel engaged during speaking activities . The
second reason is that some students are not confident to speak in English, thus prefer
According to Brown (2007), a role play minimally contains specific characters that
being act out by group members in order to achieve an aim or intent. Role play is
strategy, the teacher should understand the steps of Role Play strategy. Bailey
Firstly, make sure that every student ought to perform at certain chance so that none
of them can abstain from the activity. Secondly, give the students a chance to plan
how they will perform. During this time, the students can chose what they will say
in specific so that they can perform well. Then, encourage the students to help each
other in preparing the role play. If it is the first time for the students to be involved
in role play activity, explain the activity briefly so that every students can achieve
the expectation. Before ask the students to perform in front of the class, it is highly
recommended to ask them to do the role play in pairs or small groups first. Lastly,
have the students to realize that doing mistakes during learning is an opportunity
is not suitable for classroom where the students are too many. Even if they can do
it in small group, it is still difficult for teachers to supervise them and make sure all
the students speake actively. In additional, the teacher also need to be creative in
a. What are the differences after the Role Play strategy being used in class
b. How the Role Play application in class VII-A at XYZ Junior High School
a. To determine the differences after Role Play strategy being used in class
b. To determine how the Role Play application in class VII-A at XYZ Junior
1. The researcher
2. The teachers
disadvantages.
3. The readers
1. Role Play
acts.
terms:
1) Ability
2) Abroad
3) Inadequate
4) Meaningful
5) Relevant
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