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possible for students to learn with more relax. Besides, TGT can create characteristics as responsibility, agreement, rivalry, and involvement learning.
TGT is appropriate to be used since in TGT the students are assigned to four or six member learning teams. Each time is made as heterogeneous as
possible to represent the composition of the entire class it means that each group is made in different level high, average and low. The students work in teams to
ensure that all members can perform well on an upcoming game. By such a situation it is hoped that the students’ speaking skill will improve and they can get
the best result in learning speaking. Based on the reasons above, the writer in her thesis would like to discuss
“Implementing Cooperative Learning Using Teams Games Tournaments to Improve the Speaking Skill Students A Classroom Action Research in the Eighth
Grade of SMP N 14 Surakarta in the Academic Year of 2010 2011.”
B. Problem Statement
Based on the background of the study, some problems can be identified, related to the students’ speaking skill. The problems are:
1. How is the situation when Teams Games Tournaments is implemented in the speaking class?
2. Can and to what extent Teams Games Tournaments improve the students’ speaking skills?
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C. The Objective of the Study
This study is aimed at answering the above problems, namely: 1. To identify the situation when Teams Games Tournaments is implemented
in the speaking class of the eighth grade students of SMP N 14 Surakarta in the academic year of 2010 2011.
2. To describe whether or not and to what extent Teams Games Tournaments improves speaking skill of the eighth grade students of SMP N 14
Surakarta in the academic year of 2010 2011.
D. The Benefits of the Research
The result of the study is expected to give some benefits for the teachers, students and researchers. The benefits are as follows:
1. For the teacher Through this research, it is hoped that the English teacher can improve her
teaching-learning process by using Teams Games Tournaments. The teacher is expected to understand the learning speaking skill so that the
teacher is able to implement one of the appropriate approaches in teaching students speaking skill, and the teacher expected to make the students are
engaged in teaching learning process especially in teaching speaking skill. Therefore, the teacher will be creative person and she selects strategies due
to improving students’ speaking skill through a good teaching materials and strategies.
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2. For the Students This study is expected to make the lesson more interested, enjoyable and
effective for the students. 3. For other researcher
This study is expected to give experience to the researcher in conducting the research directly in the real teaching learning process and especially
related to improve students’ speaking skill. The researcher expects that she can give a valuable experience to other researcher which can be used for
doing a better action research in the future. She will be motivated to be creative and an effective teacher in the future who can facilitate her
students to use everything as the resources to teach English.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
