IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH CONTENT BASED INSTRUCTION APPROACH

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH CONTENT BASED INSTRUCTION APPROACH

(A Classroom Action Research of the grade X AK Students Of SMK Muhammadiyah Delanggu In 2012/2013 Academic Year). 

by 
ROCHMANDANI

First Advisor               : Budiasih, M.Hum.

Second Advisor          : Nur Asiyah, M.A.

Keywords                   : Content Based Instruction (CBI), improve, speaking skill

This research is conducted to know whether Content Based Instruction (CBI) approach can improve students’ speaking ability. It also aims to give general description about the implementation of CBI in the classroom and about the things happening in the class when it is implemented.

The subject of this research is class X AK of SMK Muhammadiyah Delanggu. The problems in this class are low in speaking ability, passive in joining the lesson, and unconfident to speak in public. Related to these problems, the writer proposes the implementation of CBI that is conducted in teaching learning process especially for speaking activity.

This classroom action research concerns in solving the problems by identifying them, planning, implementing, and observing the action, reflecting the result of the observation, and revising the plan for the following steps. In collecting the data, the writer uses observation, interview, and test. During the implementation of the action, the writer is as the teacher. The writer conducts the interview to the teacher and students at the very beginning of the research to support the data found during the pre-observation research. The test is also conducted by researcher. From that test he can see the students’ low speaking skill. In this research, the observer also observes all activities during action and writes them in the field notes. The data of the observer’s field notes at the end of cycle 1 is to know her comments and suggestions about the action of cycle 1. It is used as one of the basic considerations in revising plan for cycle 2. In each cycle, the writer conducts the test namely posttest. The students’ score of the posttest are used to measure their improvement speaking skill besides the observation of their activeness in the lesson and confidence speaking in public during the action.

The result of the research shows that Content Based Instruction can improve students’ speaking skill. Besides, their test achievement during the research is better than their score in the teacher’s note before the actions are implemented.

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