IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH

INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE

Tria Romauli Sianipar, Regina, Iwan Supardi

English Language Education Study Program of FKIP Untan, Pontianak

Email: sianipar.tria@yahoo.com

Summary :

The purpose of this research is to improve students’ speaking skills by using interview technique. This research used a classroom action research as form of research. The subject of this research is class VIII A at SMP Negeri 19 Pontianak in academic year 2014/2015 which consists of 40 students. The techniques of collecting data in this research are observation and measurement and the tools of collecting data are observation checklist, field notes and test of speaking.

interview can often be an effective technique of obtaining information. According to Dandoli and Haning (2001:23), interview is a teaching technique that encourages the students to express their ideas, emotions or feeling, and problem. I thinks after I read all the content of this jurnal, I can make a conclusion that the interview is the best way in improving students’ speaking skill, because when the teacher use this method, exactly the student must prepare themselves in speaking, such as vocabulary, grammatical structure and also strong in mentality.  

Some of the problems student can not speak by using English are low in mentality and shame in practicing. This problem can solve by using this method, because in interview must prepare both. It can be challenge for student who want increase in speaking ability.  

The interview provides the students with the opportunity to demonstrate that they can communicate freely in English exactly like native speaker, it is expected that their proficiency level of spoken English will not hinder undergraduated student’s comprehension of any given subject.  It is done to create real communication experiences. Interview encourage the students speak English more than their teacher. The teacher is only guide to make conversation run smoothly.

TEACHING SPEAKING  THROUGH DIALOGUE

Julinda,Rismaya Marbun,Luwandi Suhartono

English Education Study Program, and Language and Arts Education

FKIP Universitas Tanjungpura

Email: sentarummedia@gmail.com

Summary

The purpose of this research is to look the dialogue method can improve students’ skill in speaking class. This  research  is  intended  to  teaching  speaking  through  dialogue  at  the seventh  grade  students  of  SMP  Kemala  Bhayangkari  2  Tanjung  Asam  in academic year. In this research, the researcher focus on pronunciation and grammar, because the researcher used the descriptive way to find the result in his research.

The researcher used 2 cycle in his research, Each aspect of speaking skill (pronunciation and grammar) and task achievement then also were analyzed. To see clearly the improvement on students‟.

All result in this research :

1.      Students‟   speaking   competence   of   the   seventh   grade   students   of   SMP Kemala    Bhayangkari    2    Tanjung    Asam    Ketapang    in    academic    year 2 2013/2014 improved after being taught through dialogue.

2.      The students‟ speaking  competence  improved  from  the  first  cycle  to  the  last  cycle.  It  was showed by the improvement of students‟ mean score. The students‟ mean score in the first cycle was 54.64; in the second cycle, it was 71.96.

3.      Students‟ speaking competence improvement can be described based on the students‟ mean  score  of two   aspect   concerned   in   the   research  that   was accuracy in pronouncing especially the sound of words to give opinion and comprehensibility which deals with  students‟ clear  intention  by  giving  elaboration  to  give  opinion. 

4.      In the first cycle, students‟ ability in pronunciation and grammarss was still poor. As a result, there were  only  2  out  of  10  students  passed  the  KKM score. Mostly, the students still    made    serious    phonological    errors    in    stating   their    opinion.    For comprehensibility aspect,  the  students  could  elaborate their opinion by giving a reason to support their opinion.

5.      In  the  second  cycle,  the  researcher  found that  32%  students  still  made serious phonological errors. In addition, the mean score of pronunciation decreased  due  to  the  students‟ longer  sentence  to  state an opinion made them had      more   phonological   errors.