for question number 3: Do you know what ―get up‖ means?
5 10
15 20
25 30
35 40
Yes No
The chart demonstrates that all of the respondents know the meaning of ―get up‖. It indicates all of the students actually use the basic and daily idiomatic
expression, but they do not really understand that they actually use it. All of the
students can answer this question, i.e, 100. Chart 4
The ability’s students of knowledge idiom expression for question number 4:
Does ―switch on‖ mean menyalakan lights?‖
5 10
15 20
25 30
35
Yes No
Thirty or 83.33 respondents answer yes and only six answer no. The right answer is yes. This means some students may not be very familiar with this
idiomatic expression, even though if they will look at electrical appliances closely they will find this word easily.
Chart 5 The ability’s students of knowledge idiom expression
for question number 5: Is ―switch on‖ the synonym of ―turn on‖?
5 10
15 20
25
Yes No
The last chart shows that respondents are not that good at synonymous idiomatic expressions. We understand that mastering synonymous ordinary words
is not easy, let alone idiomatic expressions. Anyway, the number of respondents who can answer correctly are pretty fair. There are 21 respondents or 58.33
C. Analisis Statistic
The observation and the questionnaire results show that the numbers of respondents who are very good at the speaking skill are even higher than those of
the fair category. There are 5 students who are very good A and A-, which is high enough for the total of that small sample. There are a great number of
students who are good, i.e, ranging from B+ and B to B-, and only 3 persons who are fair. Anyway, there are neither poor nor very poor. In short, those who fall
into very good are 5, good are 28, and fair are 3. If we convert the result to percentage, then we will find thess:
1. The very good category is 5 respondents, so 536 x 100 = 13.88
2. The good category is 28 respondents, so 2836 x 100 = 77.77
3. The fair category is 3 respondents, so 336 x 100 = 8.33
D. Interpretation
The findings clearly denote a few students out of thirty-six 36 who took part in as respondents excel others in their learning of the basic two-word
idiomatic expressions. They are much better than others. A few students of the fair category are also inferior to others, even though not that significant. It can be
said there is a only a small gap among those who stay in scale 4 and those who stay in scale 2. This means this difference or variance is not very significant.
The above condition is still conducive to a much better achievement. It is a kind of a challenging condition whenever in a group there are only quite a number
of who are excellent, a great number of who are very good, and only a few who are in between.
Finally, the conclusion of the findings is: 1.
The Students’ ability of Using Idiomatic Expression in Speaking Skills in the academic year of 20142015 can be put into the following
achievement: a.
Very Good. Five or 13.89 respondents students come into the
very good category. These respondents can express themselves using the basic two-word idiomatic expressions in their speech quite
clearly. b.
Good. 28 or 77.78 respondents come into the good category.
These respondents have a bit problem in formulating their English communication using the basic two-word idiomatic expressions.
c.
Fair. Three or 8.33 respondents come into the fair category.
Respondents with this category express or use less the basic two- word idiomatic expressions in their speech compared to the other
groups. There are only few respondents who are the representation or reflection of
the whole students of SMP Negeri 87 Jakarta in the academic year of 20142015 of this category.
2. The difficulties in putting basic two-word idiomatic expressions in
more relaxed and natural speech faced by the seventh grade students of
SMP Negeri 87 Jakarta in the academic year of 20142015 are essentially not that hard and can be formulated as follows.
a.
Basic two-word verbs. Most of the respondents find it okay to
express themselves in their speech. They need only more time to practice more so that they can make them their daily communication
in English. b.
Habit. Using the basic two-word idiomatic expressions has not been
their day-to-day practice, so only very-very common ones such as get up and turn on are very familiar to them. This means they will
find no hardship if they start making their daily habit to use the basic two-word idiomatic expressions when they speak English.
Finally, to conclude this section, the following is listed for the sake of clearance:
1. The general ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 87
Jakarta in the academic year of 20142015 is mostly good. This category dominates the number of the students, i.e. 28 out of 36, which
means 77.78 of the respondents taking part in the research. This indicates more steps or strategies are needed to develop this functional
skill of those taken part in the research or the whole students of the school because they represent the students of the school in general.
2. Those who are very good in achievement should be made into a model
for the others by any strategy suited for the setting. 3.
Those who get the lowest achievement must be encouraged the most of others so that they may be able to keep up with the others.
4. Using basic two-word idiomatic expressions is probably not a common
practice among Indonesian English learners, both in formal and non- formal education. However, if they are encouraged to learn them and
produce in sentence making and speech, they find no significant difficulties as show by the students of SMP Negeri 87 Jakarta in the
academic year 20142015. This is a good phenomenon for others to follow. What they need is actually a little effort and time to practice
writing and speaking.
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
In relation to the findings of the this study on the students’ ability of using
idiomatic expression in speaking skill at SMP Negeri 87 Jakarta conclusion might be drawn as follows:
1. Three 3 students or 8.83 of thirty-six students are on the lowest list of
respondents with both the learning of basic two-word idiomatic expressions and speech. They have to be trained more. They have to
practice much more with their peers or their English teachers and use the basic two-word idiomatic expressions they already used. Hopefully, as
the saying goes ―practice makes perfect‖. These students can also be said to be able to speak fairly good, i.e.
in this case a skill to speak English in an accepted and casual manner. In other words, they can use, to a certain degree, some basic two-word
idiomatic expressions in their speech. Accordingly, they can also speak in an accepted and casual manner to a certain degree too.
2. Twenty-eight 28 students or 77.77 out of 36 students speak English in
a more casual manner. They master more about the basic two-word idiomatic expressions, hence they speak better and easily.
Therefore, the respondents with this achievement should and have to upgrade their knowledge over and over. This is the first grade in junior
secondary school, which there is a lot of time and long duration for them to go. In other words, they still have ample time to upgrade themselves so
that they can keep up their achivement and reach the best one. 3.
Eleven 11 students or 13.88 out of 36 students speak in a more natural way, and verbal communication is at ease with him. What they
have master the basic skill how have an informal way of speaking. It seems their mastery comes to be their navigator in their speech.
