teacher of SMPN 3 Batanghari acted as the collaborator and also helped the researcher in scoring students’ speaking ability since the researcher did not know
well the ability of each student exactly.
3.2. General Description of the Research
This research was conducted at the second grade of SMPN 3 Batanghari, East Lampung. This research was done based on the problem faced by the students and
the teacher in the speaking class that was found from the researcher’s pre observation and informal interview with the English teacher that shows the
students of the second grade at SMPN 3 Batanghari had low speaking ability. In this research the researcher acted as the teacher and also observer who
accompanied by the English teacher of the school as a collaborator. The researcher made lesson plans based on the technique that was applied in the
research and the students were taught based on those lesson plans. While teaching, the researcher also acted as an observer; it meant that the researcher taught and
observed the students’ activities at the same time. The research was conducted based on the problems that were faced by the
students in the teaching learning process of the speaking class. Then the researcher found the best solution for those problems by applying a teaching
technique, in this case the technique that was applied by the researcher was information transfer task. Every important occurrence was observed to understand
more about the problems of the research and its solutions.
As have been stated before, the researcher applied information transfer task in the speaking class. Then, after the data had been collected, the researcher observed
the weakness of the first cycle and found out the solution to make improvement in the second cycle. In the speaking class, the researcher gave the instructions to the
students and then gave them an example of information transfer task in order to make them understand what they had to do in the speaking class. When the
students do their activities using information transfer task they were observed and scored by the researcher and also her partner. After the speaking test was done,
the researcher gave the students questionnaire in order to know their perception about teaching learning process using information transfer task.
Then, after teaching learning process was conducted, the researcher analyzed the result of students’ speaking ability and students’ perception questionnaire. The
researcher and the partner would also make reflection after knowing the result of the data analysis. Based on the analysis and reflection it could be decide whether
the next cycle had to be conducted or not. If in the first cycle all of the objectives had been reached, the next cycle would not be conducted. However, if the next
cycle was conducted it would be focused on fixing the weakness that was found in the first cycle.
3.3. Participants
The participants of this research were a group of second grade students in academic year 20152016, at SMPN 3 Batanghari, East Lampung. The second
grade of SMPN 3 Batanghari consisted of six classes and each class consisted of 24 until 28 students. The subjects of this research were chosen by the researcher
