Table 4.10 Paired Samples Test
Paired Differences
t df
Sig. 2-
tailed Mean
Std. Deviation
Std. Error
Mean 95 Confidence
Interval of the Difference
Lower Upper
Pair 1
Cycle1 -
Cycle2 -4.14
1.67 0.63
-5.69 -2.59
- 6.53
6 0.01
From the data above, it could be concluded that there were some improvements in the students’ speaking skill. It could be seen from the maximum
score in the first cycle was 79, meanwhile in the second cycle was 84. The improvement in mean was 4.14 and the percentage was 6.03. The Sig. 2-tailed
was 0.01 0.05, it meant that there was a significant improvement from the cycle 1 to the cycle 2.
4. 1. 2. 2. 5 Planning for the Next Cycle
Although some good improvement had been made in the second cycle, however, those improvements
more refer to the improvement of the students’ motivation, attitude, and attention toward the teacher or the material. More
improvement should be made on the students’ speaking skill. Therefore, the researcher should create non-projected visual media to revise the previous
materials and to continue with the new material. Since the students’ vocabularies were getting better than before, it meant that it would be alright to level up the
non-projected visual media. The previous cards were quite simple and easy to be used by the students. Perhaps the next non-projected visual media could be a bit
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The next non-projected visual media should make the students speak more during the lesson and it should be able to make the students did more experiment
with the language. Since the researcher had made three different cards in the first and second cycle, perhaps the use of board game in the next cycle would give new
atmosphere to the students. Although the students never mentioned of being bored using cards in speaking practice but it would be much better if they tried
something new that could make their speaking skill better than before.
4. 1. 2. 3 Cycle 3
This was the last cycle that the researcher did in this research. The progress of the students’ speaking skill from the first cycle to the second cycle was a bit
low, therefore the researcher decided to do the third cycle. It was hoped that the progress from the second cycle to the third cycle would be much better than
before. Therefore, the researcher had to prepare another non-projected visual media to improve the students’ speaking skill.
The third cycle only took one meeting with 80 minutes’ duration. It was in
April 2016. The researcher entered the class as usual in the morning, greeted the students and revised the previous lesson. Talking about the use of revision in here
was to keep the students’ mind from forgetting the lesson that they had learned before in the previous meeting. Since English is rarely spoken in the daily life,
therefore revising the previous lesson was a must thing that the researcher did before introducing the new topic. Because the lesson was started early in the
morning it could be seen that some students looked a bit sleepy. They answered the teacher questions lazily. One thing that was very special about the students in
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previous meeting. So when the researcher asked about their activities yesterday, some students answered it using Indonesian language because they forgot the
rules of grammar or even vocabulary that they had learned in the previous meeting.
The topic for the third cycle was WH questions in past tense. For the presentation step, the researcher put again the same picture on the white board.
The picture was the situation in the classroom. From the picture, the researcher asked some questions, such as,
“Where was Ana yesterday?”, “How was the school yesterday?”, “What did Ana do yesterday”, “What was Ana doing at 8 a.m.
yesterday?”, “Why did Ana study?”, “What did Ana study?”, etc. From the questions, actually the researcher tried to revise again the use of past tense from
the first cycle until the second cycle, so the third cycle would be the end of past tense topic. After that, the researcher wrote the rules of WH Questions on the
white board. Finished with the presentation step, the researcher then gave a handout to
the students. The hand out was more to written exercise then speaking exercise because before the students were ready to speak, they needed to know the correct
rules first. Some students looked surprise when they saw the hand out because the researcher put more questions on it than the previous handouts. As usual, they
started to complain to answer many questions on the hand out. However, when the researcher said that they could look at the previous materials again then the
complaints started to decrease. Although some students looked quite serious doing the written exercises, there were also some students that looked very lazy doing
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