they worked with the same partners as before and did Three Steps Interview Technique. Each pair got a set of questions see appendix 11 on page 120 that
should be asked and answered. After they finished the interview session, each person shared the interview result to all of the group members. This activities ran about 20
minutes. From the observation, it showed some improvement in the students’ attitude
towards the learning activity. They understood their role and job. They respected and listened each other. They shared the information needed for their group. The students
were more active in class and performed their speaking skill confidently. Most of the students tried to take a part for every activity. Some of the students might still make a
mistake in their grammar and pronounciation, but they wanted to try to be better. The most important thing was they wanted to speak up and be active in class. The
interaction between the students and the teacher improved. Most of the students asked every thing they didn’t understand in order to get the better result.
It can be concluded that in cycle two the students’ participation in teaching learning process increased. The students were more talkative to speak and share their
ideas. Overall, students did their job well in all activities along the process.
4.1.5 Cycle Two Test
Cycle two test was conducted on September 7
th
2013. In this test, the students were asked to share their interview result in front of the class. Based on the information
they had got from interview, they made a short paragraph about describing someone, then shared it in front of the class. The teacher gave them a short paragraph as a
guidance see appendix 8 on page 116 and 10 minutes to prepare or ask something they
didn’t understand related to the test. After 10 minutes left, students did the cycle two test one by one. The students
came in front of the class and shared about the interview result about their partner. The teacher recorded every sound coming from each the student. The next step was
still the same from the previous test. The teacher was transcribing the students’
records, analyzing the transcriptions, giving them score based on Brown Scoring System in Table 3.2, finding out the final score of each students, and the last
categorizing the final scores into poor, fair, good, or excellent speaking skill based
on Table 3.3.
The result see appendix 19 on page 149 showed that the students’ speaking
skill increased significantly during the process of implementing Three Steps Interview Technique in the two cycles. The result of cycle two test showed that the
students spoke better than before. It could be seen from the mean of each component such as the mean of grammar 3.11, vocabulary 3.92, fluency 3.72,
pronounciation 3.67, comprehension 3.86, and task 3.67 respectively.
Students were better in mastering vocabulary and pronounciation. The vocabulary variation increased, because students learnt many vocabularies in group
and along the treatment. The task understanding and the ability to synthesize the idea also improved. From those data, most of the students were able to perform well in
speaking. The mean of the cycle one test was 70.09. It was already higher than The Minimum Criteria Mastery of Learning of English Subject of SMK N 9 Semarang
that was 70.00. There were 24 students or 67 of the students who already achieved
more than Minimum Criteria Mastery of Learning of English Subject of SMK N 9 Semarang see appendix 19 on page 149. It could be said most of the students now
can speak English well.
The following table displays the result of the cycle two test:
Table 4.3 The Summary of Cycle Two Test Result
The average of the students’ score in cycle two test can be seen as follows:
M = Total score of students
Number of students
= 2523.33
36 = 70.09
Category Range
Frequency Precentage
Poor 0-49
Fair 50-69
12 33
Good 70-84
24 67
Excellent 85-100
LOWEST SCORE 63,33
HIGHEST SCORE 76,67
The diagram below displays the percentage of cycle two test:
Figure 4.6 The Result of Cycle Two Test
The summary of each component result can be seen in the diagram below:
Figure 4.7 The Summary of Each Component of Cycle Two Test
4.1.6 Post Test
