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1. Place of the Research
This research study has been conducted in SMP Negeri 2 Kalasan. The junior high school is located in Kledokan, Selomartani, Kalasan, Sleman which is
quite far away from the town. This school has 18 classrooms, one teacher room and some other facilities, such as a mosque, a library, parking areas for students,
teachers, and staffs, three canteens, and a green house in the central part of the school. There are also two laboratories computer and sciencebiology laboratory,
a hall, and so on. SMP Negeri 2 Kalasan has 648 students and 44 teachers. Meanwhile, the
staffs consist of totally 16 people, including 7 administration staffs, 5 counseling staffs, a librarian, 3 cleaning service staffs, a laboratory staff, and a school
security.
2. Schedule of the Research
The research study has been done in the second semester of the academic year of 20112012. The reaserch was conducted for about three months, from
January until March 2012, including the observation, planning, and the implementation of the use of conversational videos in two cycles. The researcher
conducted the research based on the English schedule of class VIII E.
3. Learning Setting
There are 36 students consisting of 16 male and 20 female students in class VIII E. The English lesson in this class is carried out three times a week. In every
meeting, there are two class hours with the duration of forty minutes per class hour. In general, the English teacher uses PPP method in the speaking teaching
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and learning process. The material used is taken from the students’ LKS and sometimes is taken from the course book.
According to the English teacher, the students of Class VIII E had low speaking skill. Most of them felt ashamed and were still afraid of making mistakes
to speak English. Therefore, the researcher considered that the Class VIII E needed some improvement. Conversational videos was the kind of media used by
the researcher to improve students’ speaking skill.
C. Participants of the Research
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