Abstract
This study addresses specific teaching methods, which are believed to achieve a beneficial outcome to students’ learning ability. Project Based Learning is a modern teaching method. The core idea of Project Based Learning is to connect student's experiences with school life and to provoke students to acquire new knowledge. This study aims at (1) describing to what extent the use of Project-based Learning can improve the students' speaking skill and (2) describing the teaching and learning process when Project-Based Learning is implemented in the class. The subject of the study is the seventh-grade students of one of Junior High Schools in Surakarta. The method of the study was classroom action research with two cycles. Furthermore, the data were collected through speaking assessment. The finding showed that there was improvement in the students' speaking skill. Some aspects which are improved including students' fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and comprehension. To conclude, PBL (Project-based learning) help student in improving their speaking skill.
Highlights
English as an international language plays important role in many parts of our life nowadays (Naved 2015, para. 4)
This study addresses specific teaching methods, which are believed to achieve a beneficial outcome to students’ learning ability
This study aims at (1) describing to what extent the use of Project-based Learning can improve the students' speaking skill and (2) describing the teaching and learning process when Project-Based Learning is implemented in the class
Summary
English as an international language plays important role in many parts of our life nowadays (Naved 2015, para. 4). In Indonesia, English is used as a foreign language. It is infrequently used as medium language to communicate daily (Broughton, 2003). As the compulsory subject in every level of education, English is thought to the students for at least six years (in junior and senior high school level). Due to the limit of time for English lesson, one of highly reputed junior high school in Surakarta initiates themselves to have extra speaking class besides English regular class. The students in this class are expected to be able to communicate in English. In the end the students should be able to communicate with their friends, teachers, and people around them in accurate, fluent and appropriate way
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