IMPROVING PGSD STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH DELIVERING SHORT SPEECH AND LEADING GAME

Ratnasari Nugraheni & Sesilia Pramita Nari S.

Let’s have the same concept first… English Club (EC) PGSD Delivering short speech (DS) Leading game (LD)

What to find out?

1. the impact of DS and LG in improving students’ speaking abilities

2. the way students were motivated to speak English internal / external

The bases…

Communicative language teaching (CLT) helps learners produce the ability to create and construct utterances (Johnson & Porter, 1983)

Positive learning happens when learners have enjoyable and satisfying experiences during the learning process. (Hutchinson, Tom, & Waters ,1994)

Students who enjoy the process will be very successful in learning language. (Lewis & Hill, 2002)

Details…

Participants : 16 students from batch 2011

Research done : August, 2012 Experimental research Instrument :

- questionnaire (attitude + perception)- score recap

Difficulties of speaking English…

pronunciation grammar vocabulary0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

87.5% 87.5% 87.5%

Difficulties of each activity…

Difficulties of DS Difficulties of LD

did

not k

now h

ow to

com

pose

forg

ot sen

tenc

es

did

not m

aste

r the

top

ic0%

20%

40%

60% 62.5%50.0%

25.0% 0%

20%

40%

60%

50.0%37.5%

62.5%

Students’ attitude…

confident nothing particular nervous confused0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

37.5%

50.0% 50.0%

75.0%

87.5%

50.0%

37.5% 37.5%

DSLDX

Preferences…

DS37.5%

LD62.5%

Liking… More difficult?

DS75.0%

LD25.0%

Score…

So,…

LG is slightly better in improving speaking skill than DS

Internal motivation liking, attitude (confident, and relaxed)

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