Data Gathering Technique RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

33 After choosing the group, the students would have a script to perform. The scripts had been provided by the lecturers and the group should choose one script to perform by drawing a lot. Each group had the script to perform the role play and some of the members should practice it to be the artists. According to Byrne 1986, a role play can be grouped into two forms, scripted and unscripted role plays. A scripted role play involves the interpreting either the textbook dialogue or reading text in form of speech. The students in Play Performance class used the scripted role play to perform on the stage. Based on the observation, the researcher concluded that the teaching learning process in Play Performance class was good. The teaching learning process was in accordance with the features of principles for teaching speaking. It was stated by Bailey Savage 1994 that teaching speaking should consider whether the language is used for the second language or foreign language or not. Then, the students got the opportunities to practice both of fluency and accuracy. The other is the students got the opportunities to work in a group and the last is the speaking tasks involve the negotiation for meaning also the classroom activities involve the guidance and practice in both transactional and interactional speaking p.54. For the Play Performance class in the academic year 20142015, the genre of the performance was comedy. In the next activities, the students worked hard to perform a scripted role play by practicing a lot. They had to have an exercise outside the classroom activities. In addition, they spent a lot of time to prepare the performance in order to perform well on the stage. 34 After practicing hard, the students performed the scripted role play on the stage on May 23 rd , 2015 at LIP Sagan, Yogyakarta. There were two sessions of the performances. The first and second session consisted of two groups. Each group tried hard to perform the scripted role play well on the stage. Since the genre of the performances was comedy, many audiences laughed at the act of the artists. All of hard work and efforts of the groups were worth taking on the performance day.

B. Students’ Perception of Scripted Role Play to Improve Speaking

Ability This section would answer the second research question stated in chapter I. In order to ease the researcher in presenting the data analysis, the researcher divided it into four parts: a students’ perception on the implementation of a scripted role play, b students’ perception of the impact in performing the scripted role play, c students’ perception in the performing the scripted role play, and d students’ evaluation in performing the scripted role play. In obtaining the data the researcher used a questionnaire which contained 36 close-ended statements. It was distributed to 61 students in Play Performance class. Besides, the researcher conducted an interview with 13 respondents. The findings were as follows.