Procedures of Teaching Speaking Through Information Transfer Task

III. RESEARCH METHODS

This chapter discusses several points related to the methods that are used in this research are: research design, general description of the research, participants, research procedures, indicators of the success, instrument of the research, and data analysis.

3.1. Research Design

In this research the researcher used a classroom action research. Action research was characterized by problems and actions done by using cycle to solve the problems in the teaching learning process. In this research, the researcher acted as the teacher and accompanied by the English teacher of the school as the collaborator, we focused on improving students’ speaking ability through information transfer task. The role of the collaborator in this research was as the second observer in scoring students speaking ability. This research was done at the second grade of SMPN 3 Batanghari. The class that was chosen as the subject of this research was chosen based on the short informal interview with the English teacher. Then, based on the result of the pre- observation test the result showed that most of the students in the chosen class had low speaking ability. In this research the researcher applied information transfer task as a teaching technique in improving students’ speaking ability. The English teacher of SMPN 3 Batanghari acted as the collaborator and also helped the researcher in scoring students’ speaking ability since the researcher did not know well the ability of each student exactly.

3.2. General Description of the Research

This research was conducted at the second grade of SMPN 3 Batanghari, East Lampung. This research was done based on the problem faced by the students and the teacher in the speaking class that was found from the researcher’s pre observation and informal interview with the English teacher that shows the students of the second grade at SMPN 3 Batanghari had low speaking ability. In this research the researcher acted as the teacher and also observer who accompanied by the English teacher of the school as a collaborator. The researcher made lesson plans based on the technique that was applied in the research and the students were taught based on those lesson plans. While teaching, the researcher also acted as an observer; it meant that the researcher taught and observed the students’ activities at the same time. The research was conducted based on the problems that were faced by the students in the teaching learning process of the speaking class. Then the researcher found the best solution for those problems by applying a teaching technique, in this case the technique that was applied by the researcher was information transfer task. Every important occurrence was observed to understand more about the problems of the research and its solutions.