Abstract
Speaking skill is one of the basic language skills that has important role for oral communication. This study attempts to find out whether the implementation of Problem Based Learning (PBL) could enhance the students’ speaking skill at Darul Ulum Islamic Boarding, Banda Aceh. The population of this study was the students from the second grade of students at Senior High School Darul Ulum Islamic Boarding, Banda Aceh. The sample of this study was the students in class II-IPA I as experimental group and class II-IPA II as control group. Through the quantitative method, the writer analysed the data by means of t-test.The result shows that there was a significant difference in the students’ speaking skill taught by implementing Problem Based Learning.The students’ mean of pre-test’s score was 51.64. Then in post-test, the mean score of the students was 63.64. In other words, Problem Based Learning has successfully enhanced speaking skill of the II-IPA I students. Therefore, Problem Based Learning may be one of the appropriate teaching methods to improve students’ English-speaking ability as it gives a chance for students to relate themselves with real-life issues that require real-life solutions.
Highlights
In language learning, the four skills are important to be mastered by language learners; they are complementary to one another. Ur (2009, p. 120) said that among the four skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing, speaking seems to be the most important skill
The writer gave the post-test to both experimental and control group in order to see the impact of Problem Based Learning on their speaking skill
From the result of analysis of the research, it is evident that teaching speaking using Problem Based Learning (PBL) has contributed to the increase of the students’ speaking ability
Summary
The four skills are important to be mastered by language learners; they are complementary to one another. Ur (2009, p. 120) said that among the four skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing, speaking seems to be the most important skill. The four skills are important to be mastered by language learners; they are complementary to one another. People who know a language are often referred to as the “speaker” of that language, as if speaking includes into all other kinds of knowing. Speaking is one of the skills that must be taught as a part of learning English. 166) teaching speaking skill is implicitly stated in core and basic competence (KI-KD) of senior high school syllabus. In the core competence number 7.2, it is stated that the eleventh grade in the first semester must be able to express interpersonal communication, transactional, and functional about his/her self, family, people, and imaginative objects relevant to everyday life at home, school, and society
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