Is It Truly Improvisational Exercise Push Students’ Speaking Ability

Muhammad Aswad

doi:10.31605/eduvelop.v1i1.9

Abstract

Improvisational exercises is a technique which consist three steps, they are preparation, modelling, and playing, that is preparation the teacher presents exercises, the students practice (modelling), and then procedure (playing)and the it provides three main goals; (1) the students pronounciation improve, (2) proper use of grammatical structure is reinforced, (3) vocabulary practice in enhanced. With this background, this research was quasi-experimental, with non-equivalent control group design. The sample consisted of two classes of students enrolled in 2013/2014 academic year, which one group was taken to be an experimental and the other to be a control group. The data obtained through the test were analysed by using statistical analysis. In conducting the research, the researcher used improvisational exercise technique to evaluate the students’ speaking performance which covered by three components of speaking, such as: fluency, accuracy, and comprehensibility. The research findings shows thatthe use of improvisational exercise technique (presentation, modelling, and playing) in teaching speaking can improve the speaking performance of the eight year students of SMP Negeri 2 Majene significantly after being given treatment. The mean score of experimental group in post-test and control group were significantly different. The mean score of post-test in experimental group (3.36) was higher than control group (3.00).Thus, it is recomended for all English teacher to improve the students ability in speaking.

Highlights

Improvisational exercises is a technique in teaching and learning English, It can be fun and rewarding way to engage students and it allows them to interact with each other and to practice some skill in English mastery, especially in speaking skill
Realizing the fact that the more the students like the activities applied in a good atmosphere of teaching and learning process the more successfully the students will be learning specially in speaking lesson, conducts a research entitle “Increase students’ speaking ability of the eight year students of SMP Negeri 2 Majene by using improvisational exercise technique”.Using a typical presentation, practice, production pattern of language instruction, the lesson is taught and students receive a similar training for the exercise that is the teacher presents the exercise, the students practice with the teacher, and produce.It is easy to integrate an improvisation exercise to the lesson plan
Teaching speaking to the students by the some materials by using improvisational exercise technique in the experimental class and three past technique in control class.Teaching speaking by using improvisational exercise teaching speaking consist three steps they were; presentation, modeling, and play, and teaching speaking by using three past technique teaching speaking with consist three steps, they were pre-activities, main activities, and post-activities

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Introduction

Improvisational exercises is a technique in teaching and learning English, It can be fun and rewarding way to engage students and it allows them to interact with each other and to practice some skill in English mastery, especially in speaking skill. Realizing the fact that the more the students like the activities applied in a good atmosphere of teaching and learning process the more successfully the students will be learning specially in speaking lesson, conducts a research entitle “Increase students’ speaking ability of the eight year students of SMP Negeri 2 Majene by using improvisational exercise technique”.Using a typical presentation, practice, production pattern of language instruction, the lesson is taught and students receive a similar training for the exercise that is the teacher presents the exercise (preparation), the students practice with the teacher (modelling), and produce (play).It is easy to integrate an improvisation exercise to the lesson plan. The researcher used scoring scale which includes the accuracy, fluency, comprehensibility on the students’ pieces of speaking by using six classification, they are: excellent, very good, satisfaction, fairly, difficulty, and extreme difficulty

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