(A CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH EIGHT GRADE)

Background of the Study

1. Language is the most important means for

communication among human being.
2. English is one of the language that used by the
majority people in the world.
3. The students have to learning the four basics of
language, the skills are: listening, reading,
speaking, and writing.
4. Many students feel difficult in practicing speaking

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1. They never practice to speak English formally and
informally
2. They are afraid of making mistakes, both in the
structuring and in the pronouncing the words
3. The students confident is still less

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The Teacher’s Phenomenon
1.Teachers still use traditional technique in
teaching speaking

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2.The time constraint
3.The class size
The teacher need
What is the enrichments with appropriate
teachers ways of teaching atmosphere
need?

1. The teacher must create

the situation that can
encourage real
communication.
2. Group or pair work activity
can solve the time
constraint and the class
size problems.
THEORETICAL FRAME WORK

Speaking

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1.Speaking is an interactive process of
constructing meaning that involves producing
and receiving and processing information
2.Speaking is an activity used by someone to
communicate with other. It takes place very
where and has become part of our daily
activities.
3.One of important aspects in speaking is there
is a communication or interacting between the
speaker and listener
THERE ARE THREE FACTORS WHEN THE
SPEAKER MAKE COMMUNICATIONS,
THERE ARE:

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 Clarity
It means that the words that the speakers
use, must be clear, so that listeners can
understand what the speaker says.
 Variety
Here the speakers must try to vary way of
speaking such as pitch (rise and fall of
voice), emphasis, speed, variation, volume
and pause.
 Audience and Tone
The way you speak and the tone you use
will be affected by audience to whom you
are speaking.
 AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD
The Audio Lingual Method was developed in the
United States during the World War II.

1. Based on learning process as it is by

change people emotional and behavioral
responses.
2. The concept of habit formation of
behaviourism is the basis of Audio Lingual
Method
3. Audio Lingual Methodology owed its
existence to the Behaviorist models of
learning that were using the stimulus-
response-reinforment model, it attempted,
WHAT aIS
throught AUDIOprocess
continuous LINGUALof such
METHOD?
positive reinforcement, to engender good
habit in language learner
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THE PRINCIPLE OF AUDIOLINGUAL
IN LEARNING

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 Foreignlanguage learning is basically a
process of mechanical habit formation.
 Spoken form before they are seen in written
form.
 Analogy provide better than analysis
A linguistic and cultural context and not in
isolation.
CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH

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 Action research can be described as: any research into
practice undertaken by those involved in that practice,
with an aim to change and improve it. It is therefore, a
process of enquiry by you as a practitioner into the
effectiveness of your own teaching and your
students’learning.
 Action research involves practitioners in studying their
own professional practice and framing their own
questions. Their research has the immediate goal to
assess, develop or improve their practice. Such
research activities belong in the daily process of good
teaching, to what has been called the 'zone of accepted
practice
RESEARCH METODOLOGY
A. Purpose of Study

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The purpose of research is to improve students
speaking skill by using Audiolingual Method to active
in practicing English speaking in class
B. Subject and Place of The Research
The subject are the eighth grade of 25 students
SMP Al-Hasaniyah Jelupang North Serpong South
Tangerang to active in practicing English
C. Method of the Research
In this research, the researcher uses the qualitative
paradigm with classroom action research. The
research connected in three cycles
Cycle 1 :
1.The students were afraid to speak aloud because
they didn’t know how to pronounce the words.
2.They were motivated by the researcher that they
had to pronounce and intonation correctly because
if they were wrong in pronunciation they will get the
wrong meaning of the conversation
3.The students had not fun felling because the class
condition is not conducive.
4.They couldn’t equip in the correct sentence.
Cycle 2:
 In the cycle two the researcher find there is

a will to the students to overcome their

problems in pronunciation and speaking
skill.
 Few students showed increasing their

speaking and they could make simple

dialogue with their partner

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Cycle 3 :
 The competition was held among the groups
 Then the students were more interested when did the
conversation with their group.
 They were still to improve their speaking ability to be
more successful and more confident.

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Analysis
There was increasing the average score from cycle 1
the average is 6.65, cycle 2 the average is 7.25 and
cycle 3 the average is 7.7- the researcher took their
score from student conversations with their pair work
and group that they have done.

7.5
7
.6

7
.4
7.25
Cycle1
Cycle2 7
.2

Cycle3
7

6.8
6.65 Cycle3
6.6
Cycle2
6.4

6.2 Cycle1

Score

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 The Score Aspect Improvement

Cooperation, 7.56
Cooperation, 7.46 Cooperation, 7.14

Cooperation

Fluency, 7.28 Fluency, 7.75 Fluency

Fluency, 7.03
Pronunciation

Pronunciation, Pronunciation, Pronunciation,

6.90 7.29 7.78

Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3

From the figure above show the result score of

three aspect improvement from every cycle
(pronunciation, fluency, and cooperation)

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 Conclusion and Suggestion

 Conclusions
 From the cycle 1, almost all student unable to answer and say truly, some
students were laughing each other, less enthusiastically and made class
atmosphere become clamor, the students had a few self confidence.
 From the cycle 2, the researcher must make safety felling for the students.
And make the atmosphere of the class being conducive. Repetition drill and
chain drill is more effective for speaking activities. There was little
increasing in their pronunciation from the dialogue. As far the tasks were
given individually. In the cycle two the researcher find there was a will to
the students to overcome their problems in pronunciation and speaking
skill. Few students showed increasing their speaking and they could make
simple dialogue with their partner.
 In cycle 3 the competition was held among the groups, then the students
were more interested when did the conversation with their group. They
were still to improve their speaking ability to be more successful and more
confident. Make some group on the class can improve the ability to speak.

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SUGGESTIONS

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 a. The recommendation as follow for teacher :
 The teacher should make conducive and make
comfortable in the class.
 It is good for teacher to introduce Audio Lingual
Method to students.
 Before teaching, teacher should structure and plan this
technique carefully
 Teacher must be able to manage the class and the
time in order to make students be more active and
involved to the activity and make it runs well.
 The teacher should keep monitoring during the stages
 Positive reinforcement helps the students to develop
correct habits.
b. For the students :
 If student find difficulties in understanding the dialogue, they should ask the
teacher for clearer explanation.
 The students should be active in participating during the lesson

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 The students should remind their friends to keep speaking English

c. For the institution:

 Provide facilities that support the students activities in learning English
 Maximize the function of the library as a medium for learning
 Provide the teachers that qualified based on their background education.
 Create the good relationship among the students, teachers, staffs, and the
headmaster.