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