The Effectiveness of Using Role Play Technique In Teaching Speaking Skill At The Eighth Grade Students Of SMP Negeri 178 Jakarta Selatan In 2013/2014 Academic Year.

johannes eko lesmana; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd; dr. tri wintolo apoko, m.pd;

EVI RURIATI NINGSIH. 0901065086. The Effectiveness of Using Role Play Technique In Teaching Speaking Skill At The Eighth Grade Students Of SMP Negeri 178 Jakarta Selatan In 2013/2014 Academic Year. A paper. Jakarta: The Department of English language Teaching Programme. The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta 2014.
The objective of this research is to find out whether the use of Role Play in Teaching Speaking Skill At The Eighth Grade Students Of SMPN 178 Jakarta Selatan is effective. This research was done in SMP Negeri 178 Jakarta Selatan, on second semester in 2013/2014 Academic Year. The writer employed an experimental method in this research. The population of this research was all the eighth grade students on second semester of SMP Negeri 178 Jakarta Selatan in 2013/2014 Academic Year. The samples were taken randomly from two classes of the eighth grade students. The writer took 20 students as the experimental class and 20 students as the control class.
The writer concluded that teaching speaking skill by using role play technique of oral communicative activities at eighth grade in Junior high school will be more effective to improve students‟ speaking skill. By using this technique students will enjoy the class in the teaching learning activities, and they will be more active.
Role play has some benefits in teaching speaking. Here are there some benefits for role play as a technique of teaching English, they are: role play brings a wide variety of experiences into the classroom., role play brings the students in situation in which they are going to use in their life communication activity, role play will help the students learning the language as special purposes by using role play, role play helps many shy students, it requires the student to work in a team, role play is fun and enjoyable, role play can be one of communicative technique which increases students‟ motivation and develops students‟ fluency in using the target language.
From the calculation, the results of the t-test showed that tt = 1.31 and to = 1.49 (to > tt ). It meant Ho was rejected and Hi was accepted. In other words, it was proven empirically that the using role play technique was effective in teaching students‟ speaking skill in expressing their ideas, opinions, feelings, or thoughts to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 178 Jakarta Selatan. Hence, this research shows there is The Effectiveness of Using Role Play Technique to Improve Students‟ Speaking Skill At The Eighth Grade Students Of SMP Negeri 178 Jakarta Selatan In 2013/2014 Academic Year.