Therefore this research would be conducted to give more opportunity to the students to practice speaking. Since the main target of
teaching speaking in junior high schools was improving fluency, in which it can be reached by improving the frequency of practicing speaking,
therefore the researcher decided to deal with the field problems related to the speaking aspects to overcome these problems. In decided the problems,
she applied the democratic validity by having discussions with the English teacher and the collaborator to overcome the problems and find the
solutions that would be applied in her class.
2. Cycles 1 and 2
a. Report of Cycle 1 1 Planning
Considering the problems identified above, some efforts were planned to solve the problems in the teaching and learning process. They were used to
improve the students’ speaking ability using Role Playing technique. Before implementing the actions, the researcher and the collaborators designed a
course grid and lesson plan to help the researcher implemented the actions. In designing the course grid, the researcher selected the basic
competency and the standard competency for the second semester of Grade VIII. She made a course grid to design the materials and activities. From the
discussion with the English teacher, she decided to choose the standard of
competency 9 and basic competency of 9.2. The basic competency of 9.2 is about expressing the meaning in transactional to get things done and
interpersonal social conversations using a variety of simple spoken languages accurately, fluently, and acceptably to interact with the closest
environment involving expressions of asking and giving opinion, responding to a statement, paying attention, starting, expanding, and ending a telephone
conversation. Besides designing a course grid, the researcher also designed a lesson
plan. The lesson plan helped her to plan the learning process so that the lesson could run smoothly and all the elements included in the whole process could
support the attempts to reach the objective of the learning. The lesson plan covered the class activities, time allocation, classroom management, aim, and
indicator of the teaching and learning process. The lesson plan guided her to administer the teaching and learning process and prevented to forget the
important materials or activities that needed to be conducted. The researcher and the English teacher decided to use PPP
Presentation, Practice, and Production as the learning methodology. It consisted of three phase. The first phase was presentation. In this phase, the
researcher presented the materials by playing an audio recording, asking the students to identify some words related to the topic and explaining the
materials. In the practice phase, they practice a scenario of a situation in pairs. The last phase was production. In this phase, each of the students got a role
