IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH ROLE PLAY TECHNIQUE

Abstrak

This research aims to solve the students’ problem in speaking in terms of pronouncing the word, fluency, and vocabulary in delivering the dialogues. The researcher took one class of the tenth grade students from marketing class (X BDP 1) as the participants in this research consisting of 30 students. This research was conducted in two cycles. Every cycle consists of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting stages as classroom action research procedures. According to the findings of the study. 1). Students' speaking skills in terms of the accuracy of word pronunciation, fluency of delivering dialogues and increasing students' vocabulary in making dialogues, by applying role playing techniques increases. The role play method can make students more interested in following the subject matter and encourage students to be actively involved in speaking and can practice their confidence in speaking with cooperation and interaction between two students in learning activities. 2). Students’ ability in speaking performance has increased from cycle to cycle. In the first cycle, the average score of students' speaking ability in role-playing was 55.997 and in the second cycle was 65.99.