Abstract
This study aimed to determine the influence of a conversation program in improving students’ speaking skills at Islamic Boarding School Babul Huda. The qualitative method was used in this research by using three techniques; observation, questionnaires, and interview in data collecting. The observation was used in order to get information directly about the space, actor, activity, object, act, event, time, goal, and feeling of the population. The questionnaires were used to gain more valid and reliable data about the students’ responses to the conversation program. At the same time, the interview was used to investigate whether the conversation program influences and improves the students’ speaking skills. The population of this study was only female of the students at MA Babul Huda. Thirty students were taken as the sample of the study. The result showed that the conversation program improved the students’ speaking skill based on the data obtained. The conversation program influenced the students’ speaking skills in communicating and interacting with one another; moreover, the students explained that they could present and share their ideas among the groups after the speaking activity.
Highlights
Islamic Boarding School is a favorite place for parents to school their children
The research question is the following are the questions that should be answer related to the background of study How does the conversation program improve the students’ speaking skills at Madrasah Aliyah Babul Huda, Tualang Cut
Based on the result of the questionnaires, the majority of the students had a positive response toward implementing the conversation program in learning speaking. 92,30% of the students claimed that this conversation program very useful for them, 7,70% agreed, and none was disagreed
Summary
Islamic Boarding School is a favorite place for parents to school their children. It is in Islamic boarding school that complete all sciences such as linguistics. Speaking is one of four essential skills in English learning, speaking is the most demanding skill in daily life. Speaking plays an important role in making a social interaction with other people to gain information. Every people must have good speaking skills. Speaking is one of the ways to express ideas, feelings, experiences and share knowledge with other people in formal or informal situations and ask for something. The skill of mastering speaking is a measurement to know how far a student has mastered their learning. Making a native speaker practice, reading English books, newspapers, magazines, or even watching films on television or video films are all options. “Encountering new terms includes learning new words by reading books, listening to TV, radio, and reading
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