Institusion
Universitas Negeri Semarang
Author
Riana Eka Budiastuti, 2201402066
Subject
PE English
Datestamp
2015-04-25 03:43:32
Abstract :
This final project is action research. In this study, I limited the discussion
by stating the following problem: ?how is the achievement of the eighth year
students of SMP 13 Semarang of the Academic Year 2006/2007 in producing
spoken descriptive texts by using cue card??. The aim of the study was to describe
the process of teaching and learning spoken descriptive text by using cue card and
to find out the improvement of students? achievement in using cue card as the
teaching medium to the eighth year students of SMPN 13 Semarang of the
Academic Year 2006/2007. It is expected that the result of the study will provide a
deeper understanding of the use of cue card as a teaching medium.
There were four steps in conducting the Action Research i.e. planning,
acting, observing, and reflecting. This action research was done in two cycles. The
first cycle was how to describe animals, while the other was how to describe
person.
The result of the study showed that using cue card as a teaching medium
improved the average of the students? speaking grade of the eighth year students
of SMP 13 Semarang academic year 2006/2007 by 18.4 point, including students?
fluency (31.3 point), pronunciation (25.3 point), but unfortunately the grammar
aspect did not improve (-1.3 point).
Referring to this action research, I offer several suggestions. First, I
suggest that the English teacher should try to use cue card as one of the teaching
media. Second, English teacher should encourage the students to improve their
speaking skill by giving more practice and exercise, such as retelling story,
performing speech, practicing dialogue, and so forth. Third, I suggest the students
to improve their mastery of present tense so they can produce good descriptive
texts.