Improving the Students’ Speaking Skill through Role Play Technique
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Language
which is used by community is basically one of the tools of communication and
very important in community’s life. It is because of each community can not
make relation to each other without the use of language which can be understood
by community. Language that is used by one community may be different, but
there should be a language that covers all community, one of the languages that
cover all communities where the people know as an international language.
English
as one of international language has an important role in this word right now,
because most of information about science and technology use English. The
government of Indonesia has put English as an essential subject to be learned
from elementary school up to university level. It is caused of English has big role in development of the countries through science and technology.
There
are four language skills in English language namely, listening, speaking,
reading, and writing. Those are very important for English learners. The
learners are expected to be master in both of them. But, almost all of learners
in every school in Indonesia only master a part.
The writer has done the diagnostic test at class XI IPA of SMA . Actually, all of the students are good in listening,
reading and writing skill. They almost never have problems for these. But all
of the students in the class have very significance problems in speaking skill.
The problems are varieties. One people and the other people have difference.
The writer just can think and conclude that the students are poor in speaking
skill.
The score of
the students in class XI IPA of SMA in speaking test
are varieties. The mean score that is gotten is only 5.23, while the KKM is
6.50. It is categorized in poor category. Actually, the problem is affected by
some factors such as, in learning process we can find that the students always
prove the difficulties in speaking. The students always made mistakes in
grammar, pronunciation aspects.
Basically, they
only speak English but they do not pay attention to the sentence structure and
correct pronunciation. Besides, the students still have limited vocabulary, due
to they are seldom practice their English language. Some of the students are
shy to have an opportunity in speaking. Event, they prefer to be silent in
speaking activity. To solve the problem in this research, the writer would like
to focus in speaking skill.
To
solve the problems above, the writer will apply one of the teaching methods.
This is the interesting method and it can improve the students speaking
ability, namely varieties of discussion method. This method is designed to
create the students’ interest to speak out or practice their English language.
The
variety of discussion method is the teaching method that uses various type of
discussion method in learning process which can be changed in every meeting.
Rasyid (1995: 10) states discussion as a classroom teaching device can be in
the form of (a) whole class discussion that is the class ask questions and
express their opinions or recognized topics, and (b) small group discussion
that is the class is broken down into small groups, then the small groups
discuss the assigned topics. It is assumed that smaller
