Displaying Pictures and Videos Improving Classroom Management Giving rewards

stimulate students’ ideas, understand materials easily, and attract their attention.  The researcher showed a video of a song entitled ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It’. materials when pictures and videos were shown.  Students could understand materials easily.  Students’ minds were refreshed and they could absorb materials better after watching videos. Improving Classroom Management  The researcher re- arranged students’ seats.  The researcher more frequently moved around the classroom to check students’ understanding, check whether they did tasks, and offer help.  Students especially those who were trouble makers could be handled more easily.  Students did tasks and played games well. Giving Rewards  The researcher gave rewards for active students.  Students were more active and challenged.  Students were competitive.  Students paid attention to the teacher ’s explanation more. The reflection of the implementation of cycle 2 showed that the actions were implementation successfully. The success of the implementation of the actions was also shown by the students’ test scores. The scores of the pre-test and the post-test were compared and the result showed that there was improvement in students’ speaking skills. D. Findings Based on the research that was conducted in VIII B class in MTs Negeri Ngemplak, students’ speaking skills were improved. The efforts that were implemented in teaching and learning processes brought good improvement in students’ speaking skills. Students’ vocabularies and pronunciation skills were improved as they always did pronunciation drills and vocabulary practices every meeting. It was shown when they practiced dialogs and played communicative games. The use of classroom English in the classroom increased students’ vocabularies as well. New words and expressions increased since everyday they heard English. They understood what the researcher meant, even they could respond using English. Their English production slowly showed improvement. Although they still made mispronunciation and used Bahasa Indonesia, they used English more often than before the actions were implemented. Students were more confident and less nervous when they spoke English, because they were put in small groups and in pairs when doing the activities. They felt more secure when they could express their ideas and opinions in small groups. The activities done were also fun, since the activities were communicative games that were enjoyable. Everyone was excited and seemed to enjoy the activities. They were less shy as everyone also had to speak English. They were not afraid of making mistakes since everyone would also be possible to make mistakes. Students were more active and gave more attention to the researcher’s explanation. It was because they would get rewards if they were active in the classroom. Everyone was very competitive and passionate to get the reward. The

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