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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presents the findings of this research. There were two questions which are stated in research problem and this chapter answered those questions. The first question was about the implementation of group presentation technique to improve speaking ability. The second question was about the XII graders’ perception on the use of group presentation technique to improve speaking ability. This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part is presented about the implementation of group presentation technique to improve speaking ability. Next, the researcher presented the students’ perception on the use of group presentation technique to improve speaking ability. Speaking ability here means that how the students of grade XII IPA in SMA BOPKRI 2 felt more confident to speak English in front of many people after they had done the group presentation.

A. The Implementation of Group Presentation Technique to Improve

Speaking Ability In this section the researcher answered the first question from the research problem which was stated in chapter I. In order to answer the first question, the researcher did observations in two classes XII IPA 1 and XII IPA 2. The researcher did observations when the students did the group presentations in class XI IPA. The observations were done by watching the students’ performances in doing group presentation. 27 The group presentation technique was begun when the new material was taught by the researcher. The material was about giving opinion. The opinions were about sentences and questions that the researcher gave to the students. The students were asked to choose their own group to present the opinions from their friends’, seniors’, and juniors’ opinions. The group consisted of 4 or 5 people. After they got their own group, the researcher explained a little bit about the materials and the researcher asked them to have discussion in order to prepare the presentation. The researcher asked them to ask their friends’, seniors’, and juniors’ opinions about the material which was given to the students. After the students got the answers, they wrote their juniors’ and seniors’ opinions on a big piece of paper. Each group got seven until eight opinions from their seniors, juniors and friends. The researcher gave two weeks for the students to prepare the presentation. After two weeks the researcher asked them to present their findings in front of the class. When the presenters did the group presentation, each member in a group presented the material by turns. If one of the presenters was speaking in front of the class to present their presentation, the other presenters would keep their attention to the presentation and wait for their turns. It happened to all groups who did the presentations. The researcher observed that the students tried hard to make a good presentation in the class; they tried to overcome their nervousness before they presented their presentation in front of their friends. Based on the result above, it could be seen that generally, the use of group presentation technique to improve speaking ability for grade XII of IPA in SMA BOPKRI 2 already fulfilled the characteristic of a good presentation. According to