Enhancing Gifted Students’ Speaking Skills Through Self-Recorded Portfolio

drs. h. taufik rahim, m.m; hamzah puadi ilyas, ph.d.; dr. akhmad haqiqi ma'mun, m.pd.;

This thesis aims to reveal at the improvement of the speaking skills of the fourth grade of gifted students in the academic year of 2017/2018.
This research was action research and conducted collaboratively with the English teacher. The subjects of this research were 8 gifted students of SD Islam Al-Azhar Cilegon. The research was conducted in three cycles. The data in this research were in the form of interview transcripts, field notes and students’ mean scores. They were obtained by interviewing the English teacher as the collaborator and the students, observing the teaching and learning process, and conducting pre-test and post-test. The instruments of this research were observation sheet, interview guidelines, and speaking scoring rubric. The data were analyzed from field notes, interview transcripts, and students’ mean scores. To meet the validity and reliability, the researcher used time and investigator triangulation. In term of validity, the researcher used democratic, catalytic, process, outcomes, and dialogic validity. The procedure of this research followed five steps of action research. Those were reconnaissance, planning, actions and observations, and reflections.
The results of this research showed that the students’ speaking skills improved. The improvements were achieved gradually which covered pronunciation, comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar as well as the students’ confidence and participation. The improvements could be seen from the scores of pre-test and post-test. The students’ speaking mean score obtained from the pretest was 2.08 while the mean score of the posttest was 2.5. All implemented actions were successful to improve the students’ speaking skill.