Review of Relevant Studies

39 interesting topics and media. Moreover, the teacher can brainstorm with the students when setting up the activity to preview the language they will need, eliciting what they already know and supplementing what they are able to produce themselves.

B. Review of Relevant Studies

In this study, the researcher summarizes the related studies to prove the originality of the research. The first is Nurkasih 2010 in her thesis Improving Students’ Speaking Skill through Communicative Group Technique A Classroom Action Research at SMP Negeri 1 Bojonegoro. From the research, she concludes that Communicative Group Technique CGT has implication to improve students’ speaking ability. The English teachers are expected to use CGT that makes students communicate based on the context to increase and apply some teaching learning techniques to motivate in speaking English. She also states that making a mistake becomes a natural part of the teaching learning process for someone in English learning. The second is Khameis 2006 in Using Creative Strategies to Promote Students’ Speaking Skills. In this research, she states that teachers should encourage students to work collaboratively on speaking tasks. She also strongly recommend that teachers consider implementing other strategies to promote students’ speaking skills, such as presentations, interviews, role plays and show- and-tell sessions. The data collected seem to support her assumptions that using songs and puppets would have a positive impact on students’ spoken production, 40 and would increase students confidence in acquiring the language, and would improve their speaking skills. The third is Wulandari 2009 in her thesis Improving Students’ Speaking Skill by Using Jigsaw A Classroom Action Research at The 8th Year of SMP N 2 Pracimantoro. In her research, she concludes that using the jigsaw in speaking activities gives better improvement in students’ speaking skills. The teacher plays important roles to give and arrange interesting material. Gap information among students stimulates them to interact with others. Based on the related studies above, there are many strategies and techniques to promote the speaking skills. The previous studies put the emphasis on the Communicative Group Technique and using songs and puppets. The other study uses the jigsaw as the technique. Some strategies and techniques can make a better improvement towards the students’ speaking skills. This research is also implementing the jigsaw technique in cooperative learning with the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Depok as research members of the study that is different with the previous studies.

C. Conceptual Framework