Skripsi

Enhancing students\' active participation in speaking through the use of information gap technique in grade seventh MTsN Malang III / Devi Nuraini

Abstrak
ABSTRACT Aini Devi nur. 2010. Enhancing Students Active Participation in Speaking through the Use of Information Gap Technique in Grade Seventh MTsN Malang III. Thesis English Language Education Program Faculty of Letter State University of Malang. Advisor Fachrurrazy Drs. M.A. Ph.D. Key words students active participation speaking information gap technique. Many secondary school and university students are passive learners as it is stated by Harris (1997 13) their prime concern is to pass or achieve a good mark which will ultimately contribute toward their opportunities for further study or employment. They have to be more active to realize that they have the ultimate responsibility for learning. They have to locate their own strength and weaknesses and then get to think about what they need to do in order to achieve better marks. It is the learner task to determine their succession in learning. They have to be more active in order to achieve their target of learning that is not only to pass or achieve a good mark but also participate actively in class. Their class participation has to be their initiative. In accordance with the statement of research problem that is the majority of the students in MTsN Malang III did not participate actively in speaking. This study aims to encourage students active participation in English classes and to motivate the students to speak English fluently and effectively and how the use of information gap technique enhance students active participation in speaking at the first year of MTsN Malang III. Meanwhile the information gap technique is one of the CLT techniques in which the students must communicate with each other in order to find all the necessary information to complete the activity. In this case the implementation of this technique is the gap of information in pair work group work and among groups. It is hoped that through the activity the students learned how to communicate fluently and effectively and also it is believed that it can improve their active participation in speaking English. Students active participation in class is any participation done by the students during the teaching-learning process in which the initiative to participate comes from themselves in the form of attending the class answering question in class either from the teacher or their classmates participating in group work by taking equal turn offering opinion and cooperating participating in pair work participating in whole class discussion listening actively in class and completing the peer review. The results of the data analysis revealed that Information gap technique enhanced not only the students active participation in speaking ability but also their speaking performance. It has been proven from the data gathered from the observation checklist. The significant improvement is 30% compared to the data in the preliminary study that there were only 40% of the students participate actively in speaking. The result of the data in cycle one is that there has been 61% of the students who participated actively in speaking based on the 7 criteria that are asking question answering question participating in group work participating in the whole class discussion listening and responding actively and completing the peer review. Their active participation improved after the implementation of information gap technique in cycle 2 there were 76-79% of the students who participated actively in speaking. The procedure of the implementation of information gap technique had been revised in term of teaching technique and material given. The procedure of the implementation in pair work group work and among groups was given step by step and the researcher decided not to implement gallery walk to avoid noisiness. Meanwhile the material given was procedural text in which the language had been suited with the students proficiency level. in order to enhance their active participation. Meanwhile in term of students speaking performance there has also been significant improvement of the students score in preliminary study cycle one and cycle two with the significant improvement 22%. Their speaking performance was satisfactory in which they can present the information fluently with very good expression and gesture. In order to enhance students active participation especially in speaking it is suggested for the teacher to implement information gap technique in pair work group work and also task that is designed to make them interact actively with other groups. It aims to help the students to communicate actively and interact each other with other students in the class.

Informasi Detail

DDC

Rs 428.307 NUR e

Prodi

Universitas Negeri Malang. Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris, 2010.

Deskripsi Fisik

xii, 110 + [3] lembar : il., tab. ; 30 cm.

Bahasa

No Reg

02035/KI/10

Edisi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang, 2010

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - BERBICARA - PEMBELAJARAN

Pembimbing

1. FACHRURRAZY

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