The Use of Work in Pairs Strategy with Picture Media to Enhance Students’ Speaking Ability
Keywords:
speaking, work in pairs, picturesAbstract
This Classroom Action Research (CAR) is applied to enhance students’ speaking skills at SMPN 6 Semarang. The subjects of this research were 32 first-semester students in 9th grade. Two cycles were applied to complete the procedures for action research, namely planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Classroom observation, document analysis, pre-test, and post-test are used by the researcher to collect data. The findings showed that the Work in Pairs method with picture media can enhance students’ speaking skills in class. This can be seen from the improvement of students' speaking skills in pre-test and post-test at each cycle. In pre-test, the students got 68.7. Meanwhile the average in 1st cycle is 74.3 and in 2nd cycle is 80.1. Therefore, the gained scores of students’ speaking skills in pre-test to 1st post test is 5.6 and 5.8 from post-test 1 to post-test 2.
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