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A Study on Practices Applied in the State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill

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A STUDY ON PRACTICES APPLIED IN THE STATE ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 TULUNGAGUNG
TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Ningsih, Melisa Prada. Registered Student. 3213083009. 2012. "A Study on Practices Applied in The State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill". Thesis. English Education Program. State Islamic College (STAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor : Susanto, SS., M.Pd.

Keywords: Practices, Students’ Speaking Skill.

English as an international language is one of a compulsory subject in many schools around the world including in Indonesia. Nowadays, human resources have important roles in the context of nation building. The government efforts to reform educationed in Indonesia is intended to improve the human resource capacity; to pursue the development of knowledge and technology and to adapt global changes through a high proficiency in English, especially in interacting and communicating with other people in the world. Each school has its own practices to improve the quality of students in speaking English. The State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung has certain practices in improving students’ speaking skill.
This study is intended to find practices on formulation of research problem. The general research problem is “What kinds of practices are applied in The State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung to improve students’ speaking skill?”, this general research problem is elaborated into three the following sub-research questions: (1) what are the leaders’ supports to improve students’ speaking skill?, (2) what are the teachers’ efforts to facilitate students in improving their students’ speaking skill?, and (3) what learning strategies are employed by the students to improve their speaking skill?.
The purpose of this study is to find practices on formulation of research problem. The general purpose is the kinds of practices applied in The State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung to improve students’ speaking skill, this general purpose is elaborated into three the following sub-research objectives: (1) The leaders’ supports to improve students’ speaking skill, (2) The teachers’ efforts to facilitate students in improving their students’ speaking skill, and (3) The students’ learning strategies to improve their speaking skill.
Research method: 1) the research design in this study was descriptive research with qualitative approach, 2) the subject of this study were three school leaders (curriculum vice headmaster, public relation vice headmaster, and the chief of global oriented class), three English teachers, and six students in The State Islamic Senior High School 2 Tulungagung, 3) The research instruments were observations, interviews, and documentation, 4) the data analysis was inductive.
The research findings are; (1) School leaders’ practices: (a) facilitating teachers covering cooperation interlacing with any universities or instance in giving workshop, seminars and English training to join with Cambridge International Examination and to increase teachers’ ability in English proficiency, supporting any material textbook to teach, training TOEIC to know teachers’ ability, giving free internet hotspot to access the material in the world, LCD projector to support teaching oral presentation in the classroom. (b) facilitating students covering Establishing Arabic-English area to communication, giving English conversation for local content, training TOEFL to know students’ ability, giving English course in the school to increae students’ ability in English proficiency, giving free internet hotspot to access the material in the world, LCD projector to support students’ oral presentation in the classroom, giving student day with English contest like English debate, singing, reading poetry, role play, etc. (2) Teachers’ practices: (a) improving theirself ability covering Following workshop, seminars and English training held by school, finding the new material or topic to teach in the internet, finding another textbook to support the material, update teaching metodhology to display in the class. (b) improving their students’ speaking skill covering Guiding students, motivating students, grouping students, directing students (to practice students in group or interaction). (3) Students’ practices are having a clear goal that learns English is to communicate, understanding of the material or theme that will be spoken, write what will be spoken and practice it before oral presentation, Increase vocabulary, make improvisation in speaking, find the similarities of word as a compensation words in speaking, accustomed to train pronunciation include imitate the sound of word, controlling of emotion include enjoy and deadening nerves, keep on to practice wherever they are, update kinds of authentic material that support speaking in the internet.

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Tulungagung : STAIN Tulungagung., 2012

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English

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420

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