conducted before the first meeting of the treatment whereas the each of post-test was done after the each cycle of the meetings.
3.4.1 Pre-test
I conducted a pre-test to know the quality of the students speaking skill before they got the treatment. The materials are what students had done and would
be taught. I asked students to speak in front of class and described about themselves and then I also gave some questions. They can use whatever
Indonesian or English, so I could observe how far the English ability they have.
3.4.2 Cycle 1
Cycle 1 was done in three meetings. There were four steps in each cycle. The activities which were carried out presented below:
1 Planning
The first step was finding an institution to do a classroom action research. In this case, SMP Negeri 2 Sumbang was chosen. After that, the
researcher asked permission to the headmaster to carry out the study there. Then, the researcher met the teacher of grade VII and discussed about the
schedule of the research. In this study, the researcher collaborated with the teacher of grade VII. The researcher performed as the teacher, while the
teacher of grade VII was the observer. After making sure about the problem of the research; the researcher did preparation before doing a classroom
action research. The kind of preparations could be seen as follows:
a. Choosing the teaching material based on the standard competence and basic competence for speaking skill of grade VII students about
introducing and also asking and giving information. b. Making lesson plan, which consist of some steps, activities and test
items in teaching speaking using “High Town” Card. c. Organizing the students in pairs in doing activities.
d. Preparing some teaching facilities, such as “High Town” Card, audio recorder and board marker.
e. Preparing the instruments for data analysis during the research process, namely students’ observation checklist.
2 Action
There were two teaching learning activities in speaking class by using “High Town” Card Game as the action phase. The elaborations were as
follows: a First Meeting
In the first meeting, I began with the teaching learning process by explaining the importance of speaking English and asking the difficulties
why students rarely use English in the class. After that I introduced what “High Town” Card Game is and the purpose of learning speaking using
“High Town” Card. I also taught greeting expression as introduction to students.
b Second Meeting In the second meeting, I started to teach students how to start in
introducing oneself as the pre-test task before. The materials were how to tell about name, nick name, country, date of birth, age, and height using
“High Town” Card. I asked them to repeat and remembered the expression what I said. Making group in pairs was expected to improve confidence of
each student.
3 Observation
The students’ activities and their cooperation in their pairs as well as the teaching learning process were observed in this step by using observation
checklist.
4 Reflection
After students were given some treatments, on the third meeting I took post-test 1 to evaluate how far students’ speaking ability. It measured five
categories i.e. pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, grammar and comprehension in the lesson plan. I conducted first post-test and the
material was the previous lessons. The students were asked to tell what they learnt before e.g. introducing and describing one’s self in front of class and
I assessed them using audio recorder.
3.4.3 Cycle 2
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