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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH TASK BASED INSTRUCTION (TBI) OF THE EIGHT GRADE

STUDENTS AT MTs NURUSHOLAH IN

 ACADEMIC YEAR 2012 / 2013

THESIS

BY

SAIFUL ANWAR

NIM 0910231039

 

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF JEMBER

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

LANGUAGE AND ART EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT

ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM

2013

ABSTRACT

Anwar, Saiful. 2013. Improving students’ speaking ability through Task Based Instruction (TBI) of the eight grade students of MTs Nurussholah in academic year 2012 / 2013. Thesis. The English Language Education,   Faculty of teacher Training and Education  Language and Art Education Department, Muhammadiyah University of Jember. Advisor: (1) Dr.M. Hatip, M.Pd. (2) Fitrotul Mufaridah, M.Pd

Keywords: Speaking Ability and Task Based Instruction (TBI).

Speaking skill is one of the abilities which is very important in studying language because it is used to express their idea, feeling or make a communication in the target language. Dealing with the condition of learning English language, there must be some ways and solution to improve the students’ speaking ability using the available teaching method, in this case the researcher used Task Based Instruction to improve students’speaking ability.

In this research, the problem is “can the use task based instruction (TBI) improve students’ speaking ability of the eight grade students’ at MTs nurussholah in academic year 2012 / 2013?”. The hypothesis of the research is The use of task based instruction (TBI) can improve students’ speaking ability of the eight grade students’ of Nurussholah in academic year 2012 / 2013.

The design of this research is classroom action research (CAR) which has four steps, those are:  Planning, Acting, Observing and Reflecting. Researcher uses speaking test to get data about students’ speaking ability, and document to know the students’ speaking score before implementing the Task Based Instruction.

Finally, after the action given in two cycles, the mean score of speaking test is 64.4. In Cycle 2 the mean score of speaking test is 67.8. The percentage of students in Cycle 1 ( ≥  65 is 64%)  and in the Cycle 2 ( ≥65 is 80%). It means that the requirement of 75% of the students’ active involvement and achieve the standard score in the teaching learning process is fulfilled.

It can be concluded that after teaching learning English through task based instruction (TBI) as well as the students active during the teaching learning process of speaking ability class by giving them task based on the instruction from the teacher which more suitable with the condition of student’s and more interesting, because of that speaking ability of the eight grade students at MTs Nurussholah is improved.

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