Pronunciation Grammar Vocabulary Comprehension

skill is explained as follows:

4.4.1 Pronunciation

Students’ pronunciation was very poor before the treatment was given. They were not accustomed to speak in English so their pronunciation was not good. After given the treatment, the students’ achievement increased. The students’ pronunciation improved because they learned how to pronounce the words correctly since their wrong pronunciation were corrected in the cycle one and two. The students also often heard the words and sentences read by their friends in drilling section, so they remembered and applied them in pronouncing the words.

4.4.2 Grammar

The target test in this research is spoken descriptive text. The tense used in descriptive text is simple present tense. Students basically knew the simple present tense form, but they could not implement it in speaking skill. They forgot to use ees in the end of the verb. After doing the cycles, the result of grammar aspect increased. The result showed that the students understood how to use simple present tense form correctly. They also corrected their grammar by themselves when they did mistakes in performing spoken descriptive text.

4.4.3 Vocabulary

Pre-test data showed that students knew limited vocabularies to describe something. They only used familiar adjectives and simple words in their sentence. I did some treatments to enrich students’ vocabulary. I used drilling method to encourage students in finding vocabularies and adjectives they never heard before. After doing some treatments, post-test result was increased significantly. The students’ vocabulary achievement improved because they got new vocabulary from the treatment and the teacher’s explanation. They also tried to find new vocabulary from their dictionary.

4.4.4 Comprehension

Comprehension is the ability to understand the sentence completely and be familiar with the situation, fact etc. The result of the research showed that students’ comprehension increased. The students could understand what the teacher says and get the point of information related to the topic discussed. They did an exercise asked by teacher. In this aspect, researcher found out how well they understand a spoken language.

4.4.5 Fluency