Institusion
Universitas Negeri Semarang
Author
Tri Anggono Sulistiono, 2201407056
Subject
PE English
Datestamp
2015-04-25 04:13:37
Abstract :
Speaking is considered as the social skill for students, but learning speaking
especially in English is not easy. Students should learn speaking through practice
without worrying about making mistakes continuously.
The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using
suggestopedia in teaching speaking. In this suggestopedia method, the students
were set free their mind in imagining something and hoped not to worry telling
something in their mind with accompanying of music, pictures, and other teaching
media. They were asked to enjoy participating the lesson so they easily answered
every question given and did every assignment given in a comfortable atmosphere
created in classroom.
The study is an action research which consists of two cycles. In cycle one,
the students were trained to describe something in a short sentence with a simple
pattern so they can easily describe something directly. In cycle two, students were
asked to describe something in hard pattern. It means that they must describe
something in the form of monologue and dialogue in several situations. These
cycles would show the improvement of the treatment given to the classroom. The
speaking aspects include grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency,
pronunciation, and task.
To know the effectiveness of using suggestopedia I used tests,
questionnaire and doing observation as the instruments. At first, the means of the
pre-test is 38.84. Then, the first cycle test means score is 59.73. While the posttest
means score is 74.00. Whereas from the questionnaire, it shows that the
students were interested in this teaching method. They felt comfortable in
attending this classroom and understood the material given easily by the activities.
Moreover, based on the observation during the research, the students enjoyed the
suggestopedia classroom because they are asked to do some fun activities.
Based on the result of the computation I can conclude that suggestopedia
is effective to improve students? speaking skill. As a result, students were
interested in this method because they can practice English in different way. The
English teacher is expected to be creative in initiating the new ideas to teach
speaking English.