cx Both group and individual presentations motivated them to
speak up. The use of authentic teaching media attracted students‘
attention. Weakness
There were few who still lack of self-confident in speaking. The discussion in group work used their mother tongue.
The chance given to the students to have the presentation must be given proportionally.
The special care should be given intensively to the trouble makers.
5. Final Reflection
The result of teaching and learning process to improve speaking ability through project work as a teaching technique showed increases from cycle to
cycle. After comparing the mean of the pre-test, the mean of the post-test in Cycle 1, the mean of the post-test in Cycle 2, and the mean of the post-test in
Cycle 3, which are 65.57, 69.09, 72.86, and 75.94, respectively, the writer concludes that there is a better progress than before.
After Computing the mean scores between the pre-test and the post-test of Cycle 1, between the post-test in Cycle 1 and the post-test in Cycle 2, and
between the post-test in Cycle 2 and the post-test in Cycle 3 using non independent t-test, the results were
o
t = 15.8 in Cycle 1,
o
t = 16.6 in Cycle 2,
o
t = 18.3 in Cycle 3 respectively. The t-table at level of significance
0.05 with N
– 134 was 2.042. It could be said that
t o
t t
. It meant that the students‘ achievement increased significantly.
The classroom atmosphere improved at the final stage. It was indicated by the live classroom atmosphere and
the increased students‘ participation during the
cxi speaking session. Students were active in conducting the project. Another fact
was that there were more chances for speaking practice. The spoken activities dominate the class, replacing the domination of written type of activity before the
research was implemented.
B. Findings and Discussion 1. Findings
Based on the results of the research, the writer found three findings to answer the problem of the research, which are 1 Does the use of project work
improve the students‘ speaking ability?; 2 How is the teaching-learning process when project work is applied in the speaking class?; 3 What are the strengths and
weaknesses in using project work in the classroom practice?. Besides focusing on answering the problems of the research as stated in Chapter 1, the writer also
provides the implementation of the action research in this study. The discussion of the research findings is presented in the following section.
a Improvement of students’ speaking ability
The findings of the study showed that the use of project work in the speaking class improved students
‘ speaking ability. The improvement of the students‘ speaking ability could be recognized from the improvement of the
speaking achievement, the ability to answer the teacher ‘s questions, the ability to
express ideas using appropriate vocabulary and grammatical form. Before the study, she found that the students had low speaking
achievement. The improvement of the speaking ability could be seen from the improvement of studen
ts‘ achievement cycle to cycle. The speaking achievement
