English
Study Program, STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai
Riau
ABSTRAK
ABSTRACT
Mahasiswa semester III program studi PG-PAUD STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku
Tambusai memiliki kesulitan berbicara dengan menggunakan
Bahasa Inggris. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memperbaiki kemampuan mahasiswa ketika berbicara dalam
Bahasa Inggris dan mengetahui faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi perbaikan kemampuan mahasiswa
tersebut dalam berbicara dengan menggunakan Bahasa Inggris. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 22
mahasiswa semester III program studi PG-PAUD STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku
Tambusai. Penelitian tindakan kelas ini telah dilaksanakan dalam dua siklus
dengan empat pertemuan dengan prosedur; perencanaan, pelaksanaan,
pengamatan dan refleksi.Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa menggunakan film dalam pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris dapat memperaiki kemampuan bicara siswa dalam Bahasa
Inggris. Peningkatan nilai rata-rata siswa sesuai dengan peningkatan nilai
rata-rata indikator speaking skills.
Nilai rata-rata siswa sebelum penelitian adalah 60, meningkat 66.3 pada
siklus 1, dan 71.4 pada siklus 2. Faktor- faktor yang mempengaruhi peningkatan
kemampuan berbicara Bahasa Inggris siswa adalah materi, media,
manajemen kelas, pendekatan guru, dan strategi guru didalam kelas. Dapat
disimpulkan bahwa ada perbaikan pada kemampuan siswa dalam
berbicara Bahasa Inggris.
The t h i r d
s e m e s t e r students o f
Early Childhood Education
Department of STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai Riau had problem in speaking
E n g l i s h . The purpose of this research
is to improve the students speaking skill and also to know the factors influence the students’ speaking
skill. The participants of this research are 22
students of the third semester of the Early Childhood Education Department of STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai
Riau. The research is classroom action research which was done in two cycles with four meetings. Each cycle consists of plan, action,
observation, and reflection. The result of this study shows that using movies in teaching and learning
English can improve
the students speaking skill. Based on the data, the mean
score of the students speaking skill as well as the increasing of the mean score of speaking
skill indicators namely
accent, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The average score was 60 in pre research, 66.3 in cycle I, and
71.4 in cycle II. The factors that influenced
the students’ speaking skill are
material, media, classroom activity, classroom management, teacher’s approach, and teacher’s strategy. It means, there is improvement on the students’ speaking skill.
Keywords: Movies,
Speaking skill.
INTRODUCTION
English is a subject that needs to be acquired by the students in college. It is one of the requirements in the curriculum of college, especially in Early Childhood Education Department. The students in Early Childhood Education Department of STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai Riau learn English that consists of four skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The students learn English to build their knowledge and use it in communication. One of the language skills that need to be acquired by students of Early Childhood Education Department in learning English is speaking. It plays an important role in learning the language. It helps the students to be creative in using English. They practice it to use some expression and instructions in classroom. Speaking also supports the students to practice English in communication. Speaking enables them to be confident in speaking English. In another word, speaking is very crucial in learning English.
Choney in Kayi (2006) says that speaking is the process of
building and sharing meanings through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols in
variety context. In addition, Jie (1999) supported that the use of language is more important
than knowing the usage of language. It is clear that speaking is one of language skill which
is active in using language to share meaning
or information in variety context.
In speaking process, the speaker and interlocutor emphasize on the meaning what each is
saying and what they are
talking. It means that
every conversation has
the purpose to speak with
their interlocutor, on the other hand the spoken language consists of both verbal and non- verbal
language to share meaning in various contexts between speaker and interlocutor. In addition,
when speaker and hearer are interacting or communicating orally, each focuses on the use of
the language not the usage of the language. On the other hand, communication is good when the speaker
and interlocutor understand one another. They can
interact with others so that they can improve their speaking because they always talk each other.
Dealing with some theoretical definition above, it can be concluded that speaking is
one of productive skills, which is the ability in using language orally
through sound to present information and produce ideas. Speaking
skill is is a set of ability to express ideas, feeling or thoughts intelligibly;
reasonably and accurately. Expressing idea for interacting with another member of community
which involves many components; including pronunciation, listening, and
grammar skill both in verbal and
non-verbal of a variety context.
Kayi (2006) states
that teaching speaking is a very important part of second language learning.
The ability to communicate in a second
language clearly contributes to
the success of the learner in the school and success later in every phase
of life. It means that English mastery is
particularly essential especially
speaking in the second language learning, which may result in the success of
both students’ learning and students’ life in
the future. In addition, Hughes
(2003) mentions that the objective of teaching spoken language is to develop
the speaking ability to interact successfully in that language, and also this involves
comprehensions as well as production. In other words, teaching speaking aims to enhance
the capability of interaction in comprehending and producing the language. It means
that the purpose of teaching speaking is not only to make a student
able to speak
with their friend but also give them some opportunity to practice it.
Moreover, Nunan in Kayi (2006) explains that teaching speaking is teaching English
as the second language for the learners in producing the English
speech sounds and sound patterns, using word and sentences stress, intonation
patterns and the rhythm of the second language, selecting appropriate
words sentences according to the proper social setting audience, situation, and subject
matter, organizing their thought in a meaningful and logical sequence, using language as
a means of expressing values and judgments, and using the language quickly and confidently with few unnatural pauses called as fluency.
In relation to the
previous explanation, it is clear that the primary goal of teaching speaking English
is to communicate, particularly in language
production in which the use of language is emphasized rather than the usage of language. In teaching speaking, the teacher assesses the students
to improve their speaking skill. Sometimes, the teacher has some types of questions
and some procedures to assess the students’
ability, so the student have a variety of task to develop their speaking compete.
In this case,
movies can be used as media in speaking class. According to Kneller
(1971), the use of movies in teaching
and learning English had been used since the two wars. It became famous in the late
of 1940s. At that time, the teacher recorded their students’ activities by using video
media. It was used for evaluating their learning activity, so they could find and improve
their mistakes. Sometimes, they recorded a festival music and set it as a movie.
He explains that movies are obtained to show a story and evaluate their achievement
in teaching and learning process.
In this case, there seem no disadvantages on using movies in teaching English,
because the teachers should consider the appropriate movies on their classrooms.
Kusumarasdyati (2004) states that there are several considerations when using
movies in classroom. First, the movies become important devices in the curriculum.
Second, the movies enable to show the importance in motivating the students
in acquiring skills. Third, the movies can be used because of the pedagogical
values. Fourth, the movies consist
of visual such
as facial
expressions and gestures. It is clear that a teacher should
consider the advantages of movies in teaching and learning before using the movies in their class.
According to Kusumardyati (2004), there are three stages that can be used during the class by using movies; pre- viewing,
whilst- viewing, and post- viewing. In pre- viewing activities, the teacher gives time
for the learners to construct the appropriate
schemata to help the students in comprehending the movies. It consists of some
activities. The students give the name and introduce the theme of the movie and the important words, and then give the students
worksheet and an answer sheet. The teacher asks the learners to read the items
in the worksheet for a few a minutes to help the
learners become familiar with the movies. In whilst viewing, the learners
watch the movie while completing sentences based on the
movie. Therefore, the students are focused on the story they watch. In post viewing, Maysarah (2010) states
that there are some activities that can be done after watching the movie. The activities
are poll or interview, alternatives ending, discussion, retelling story.
METHOD
This research is
a classroom action research which aims to explain whether movies can
improve the students’ speaking skill at the third semester of Early Childhood Education Department of STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku
Tambusai Riau. Wallace (1998: 6) states that an action research is
the area for developing and improving of the teachers’ ability in
teaching their students. It intends
to improve the students’ and the teacher’s
ability. Similarly, Kemmis and Taggart (1988:5) assert that action
research is a research which provides the solution and investigation of the
problem in education. The terms of classroom action research describes the important
characteristics of this research, such as; to use an idea in increasing knowledge or improve curriculum,
teaching and learning process. The classroom action research provides some solutions in the classroom toward the problems
that have been faced by the students speaking English at at the third semester in Early Childhood
Education department of STKIP Pahlawan
Tuanku Tambusai Riau.
FINDING AND DISCUSSION
This research was
a classroom action research which was done at the third semester of
Early Childhood Education o f STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai
Riau. It consists of two different kinds of data analysis namely
quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative data is collected
through tasks and tests; meanwhile the qualitative data is gotten by observation sheets, field notes and interview.
This research was started on 5 April 2015– Mei 2016. It consists of two cycles
which consist of four meetings in each cycle. Three meetings were conducted
for doing the task and the other was used for test.
Before conducting
the study, the researcher got the students’ speaking skill before using movies.
Based on the data, the students’
speaking skill before using movies in speaking class was low, it could be seen
that the mean
score of listening
comprehension was 60. There were
only 9 students got score >70.
1. The Improvement of the Students’
Speaking Skill by Using Movies
a.
The First Cycle
The first cycle was conducted on 8
– 29 September 2015. This cycle consisted
of four meetings, and every meeting was conducted with the collaborator.
There were four stages in conducting classroom action research and
they were described in this following explanation:
1) Plan
Before conducting
the research, the researcher made some plans.
The researcher prepared all the things needed
for the research. Such as the teaching materials which were prepared
to be used in teaching and learning activities. For the cycle 1, the
instruments in gathering the data were prepared namely: task and test, observation
sheets, field notes, and interview questions and students’
attendance list. Then, the researcher arranged the schedule. Next, the researcher
introduced to the collaborator about the movies to be applied
in teaching seaking skill for cycle 1 was
prepared.
2) Action
The first cycle was conducted in four meetings. The meetings were three
meeting for treatments and one meeting for test. The time allocation
for each meeting was 50 minutes (2 x
50 minutes).
The teaching and learning process was done based on the
lesson plan that had been prepared
in the planning phase. After completing all of the meetings in this cycle,
the researcher gave speaking test to the
students.
There were three kinds of
the story that had in the test.
The story are “Bird Story, Sleeping Beauty, Story
of Thumbelina, and True Friend.
Based on the test, the mean score in cycle 1 is 66.3, it was categorized
into low. For further descriptions, the researcher also included average of speaking skill in each meeting. The score are presented in the following graph:

3) Observation
At this session,
the collaborator took a note on the observation sheets and
wrote important information in the field note based on the situation in the classroom. She sat at the back of
the students and saw the classroom activities. She noted everything that found
during teaching and learning activities, such as the media, material, classroom activities, classroom
management, teacher’s strategy and teacher approach. The result
of the observation in cycle one as follow:
In observation sheets and field notes, the collaborator took notes. It showed
that the material was not only
narrative. The students also learnt vocabularies; time words, action
verbs, and noun groups. They discussed the vocabularies by guessing
the meaning of those words together before watching the movies in
teaching speaking skill. But the teacher did not teach any grammar in the
class. The teacher used movies entitled Bird
Story, Sleeping Beauty,
Story
of Thumbelina,
and True Friend.
The observation
sheets also explained some factors why the application of movies in teaching speaking by using movies did not run well.
The teacher’s control also needed in order to achieve the purpose
during the teaching and learning process. During the collaborator’s
observation, the teacher had done the activities based on
the lesson plan as well. The students focused when watching the movies
because while watching the movies, they completed the sentences. But not all activities gave benefit to the students. After watching
the movies, the teacher asked the students to give their opinion.
Some students did not join this activity and the class seemed to be
crowded, they did not pay attention with their friend’s opinion. Shortly,
the teacher could not manage the class well after watching the movie.
The application of movies in the fourth meeting helped the students
focusing in learning English by using movies. But based on the observation that was done by the collaborator, the teacher got
difficulty when controlling the class. The class was crowded
when the teacher asked the students to give opinion and comment.
It was proved that there were some students gave opinion and no
student gave comment. Some students made noisy when their friend
gave opinion.
4) Reflection
In cycle 1, using
movies gave contribution in improving the students
speaking skill. The improvement was not successful because it
didn’t pass the standard minimum score. The progress of the improvement
was seen clearly through the students score from the result
of the tasks and test. Then, observation sheet, field notes, and interview
could explain why there was an improvement.
Graph 2: The comparison of the students’
average on pre research and cycle 1.
c)
The researcher gave more vocabularies to help the students in
understanding the story easily.
b. The Second Cycle
Based on the
reflection in the cycle 1, there were still found some problems related to
the students’ speaking skill. Those problems had to be solved, so that, the second
cycle had to be continued in the following reasons; the first reason was the improvement
that the teacher got in the first cycle was not satisfied yet.
1) Plan
Based on the
graph above, it could be concluded the students’ speaking is still low. In this case, there was an improvement of the students
score comparing with the pre
research. There were some notes that considered by the researcher in using
movies in teaching English at the third semester of Early Childhood Education Department of STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai Riau. There
were few students got good score. The class average score did not achieve the standard minimum of achievement.
Based on the observation, the teacher taught the students based on the
lesson plan. However, the material was still difficult for the students.
In addition, based on the interview, the students were not accustomed
to listen to English conversation. It was difficult for them because the people in the movie speak
fast. There were some improvements needed to be done by the
researcher at first cycle. Therefore, some improvement applied in
the cycle II. The results of the reflection in the first cycle that was
implemented at the second cycle are in the
following:
a) The researcher changed the classroom
activity; in the first cycle, the students gave their opinion
and comment in the discussion, but in the next cycle, each
student got opportunity to answer the questions in exercise 2 and
discussed it together.
b) The researcher taught simple past tense
in the class to help them in expressing the sentences.
To solve the
students’ problems which were found in the first cycle, the planning
was set up again in order to get the speaking skill which could reach the minimum
criteria of achievement. The researcher prepared some new movies entitle
dog and the cook, the little mermaid,
the tortoise and the eagle, Cinderella, Goldilocks and the three bears, The researcher revised the lessons plan
for the cycle 2, the researcher revised the learning activities in cycle 2. There
were four meetings included test. The researcher gave different movie that was
learned by the students in the second cycle. Then, the researcher gave speaking test at the end of the second cycle.
2) Action
The second cycle was
conducted on
13 October - 3
November 2015. The reseacher was teaching in classroom by using
movies. The teaching and learning process was done based on the lesson plan
that had been prepared in the planning step. On this action, the collaborator
came to the class and did observation for each meeting. She observed
and noted everything she found during teaching and learning activities by using movies. Based on the data, the researcherdescribed
the average score on each meeting. The score are presented in the
following graph:
Graph
3: The comparison
of the
students’ average on each
meeting of cycle 2
The graph above contains the average
score of the students’ skill for each meeting in cycle 2. In this graph,
the improvement of students’ speaking skill in each meeting can be clearly
seen. Based on the information, the students’ speaking skill
was improved in the cycle two. It can be concluded based on the students’
score in each meeting. The score started on 66 in the first meeting, 70.2
in second meeting,
70.4 in the third meeting.
Finally, in test cycle 2 was 71.4. It achieved the standard minimum.
The score indicated that there was improvement on the students’ speaking skill by using movies.
The data from
cycle 1 and cycle 2 showed the improvement of the students speaking skill. The students’ skill in speaking skill could succesfully
improved through this media. In detail, the improvement can be seen in the following graph:
Graph
4: The comparison
of the

After analyzing
the data which was taken from the test on the second cycle,
it shows that the students’ speaking skill got improvement. It was 71.4. The result
of the test has passed the standard minimum score. As
mentioned before, the minimum standard subject for English is 70. In sum,
the use of movies as media could improve the students’ speaking skill
at at the third semester of Early Childhood Education Department of STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai Riau.
3) Observation
In observation sheets and field notes, it showed that the students
learnt narrative, vocabularies; time words, action verbs, and noun groups,
and simple past tense. They discussed the vocabularies by guessing
the meaning of those words together; the students learnt simple
past tense before watching the movie. In learning the grammar,
the teacher gave five sentences in English. The students were asked to translate
them into their mother tongue. Then, the teacher and students
discussed the meaning of the verbs in the sentences. After that,
the students were asked to tell which of the sentences uses the simple
past tense.
The students
enjoyed in the class because the movie has entertainment
and education for the learners. The students got moral value
in every story they watched. The students were enthusiasm when learning by using movies. The activities in teaching and learning
narratives during the application of movies influenced the
students’speaking skill. At the first step, the teacher started the class;
the students gave good responses when
the teacher opened the class. Then, the students and the teacher
discussed the meaning some vocabularies based on the story.
The students watched the movies while doing the exercise. The students paid attention in watching the movies.
Then, the observation sheets also explained some factors why the
application of movies
in
teaching speaking ran well. The teacher’s
control also needed in order to achieve the purpose during the
teaching and learning process. During the
collaborator’s observation, the
teacher had done the activities based on the lesson plan
as well. The students focused when watching the movies because while
watching the movies, they completed the sentences. After watching
the movies, they discussed the story by answering
the questions on exercise while discussing the story together. The students
paid attention in the discussion. Shortly, the teacher could
manage the class after watching the movie.
Finally, the application of movies in the fourth meeting helped the
students focusing in learning narratives, they understood the text easily.
It was proved that all students got opportunity to speak up in the class.
4) Reflection
In this stage,
the researcher looked back to the instruments;
the result of tasks and tests, observation sheets, field notes and interviews. The development of the students’ speaking skill at the second cycle indicated
that the movies as media in teaching English gave contribution to improve
their speaking skill. The average score was 71.4 in cycle 2. The
improvement was significant. So the result of the observation sheet, field
notes and interview could explain why there was an improvement of
students’ speaking skill.
Besides the
activity that had been done by the researcher and the students
in this cycle, there were some notes that should be considered by the researcher in using movies
as media. The class average
score of students speaking skill achieved
the standard minimum score. The collaborator
observed that the researcher did all activities that had been
prepared in the lesson plan. The researcher also attended the students’ activity in the class. The students in using movies in
learning English were
active in the
second cycle
because all
students got opportunity to watch
and discuss the story together which gave the contribution in improving their speaking skill.
In conclusion,
using movies could improve the students’ speaking skill. There were some points that could
be explained from using movies in listening class. Firstly, the students
were fully motivated to join the activity. In fact, they understood the story from the movies in the class.
Then they can improve their vocabulary. Therefore, they understood
the narratives easily and joined the discussion after watching the movies.
Secondly, the students were active and spoke up in the class, and reduced
noisy students that might be occurred during the class. Thus, the students
were given two activities in one time. Therefore, they paid attention
to the story. This activity helped them to express anything in English easily.
B. DISCUSSION
Based on the
finding of this research, which was taken from the activities of two cycles
of this action research, it can be concluded that teaching and learning process
by using movies gave improvement toward the students’ speaking skill. It is
supported by Stewart’s
idea (2006), he says movies can entertain the viewers and solve some problems
in learning English such as speaking, writing, lack of speaking skill, the lack of vocabulary, the lack
ability in reading, lack of grammar, and etc.
In addition, based on the observation, the students joined the activities and participated
actively in the class. They were excited and interested in learning
narratives by using movies. In line, Kusumarasdyati (2004) in her research states
that the students become motivated in learning English by using movies. The movies
made the students became active and easier in comprehending and expressing
the material.
This research also
revealed that there were some factors that influence the improvement
on the students’ speaking skill at the third semester of Early Childhood
Education Department of STKIP Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai Riau.
The several factors are material, media, classroom activities, classroom management,
and teacher strategy and teacher approach.
The first factor
that influenced the changes of students’ speaking skill was material.
The material increased the students’ interest, challenged them in listening
the spoken narratives. The material was also suitable with the curriculum.
In this case, the material was not only narrative text, but also three kinds of
vocabulary: noun group, time words, and action verbs, simple past tense. According
to Cavanagh (1998) and Sabet (2011), teaching narratives should be supported
by vocabulary and grammatical form which are appropriate with the level of
the students. This finding of the research
was supported by Clark (1989), the material considered many aspect in order
to fulfilled its role in learning process. The material should be authenticity,
realism, context and focus to the learner.
The
second factor was the media used
in speaking class. In teaching and learning in the classroom, the teacher taught
narratives by using movies as the media. In this case, the teacher played the movies
by using some devices, such as laptop, projector, and sound system to support
the teaching and learning process. There is improvement on the students’ speaking skill after learning English by using movies. This finding of the research is
supported by Kusumarasdyati (2004) states that movies can develop the students’
speaking skill and stimulate their imagination simultaneously.
It also increased the students’ motivation in learning English.
After class, the students often showed
their great progress in learning English.
The researcher has
chose movies for them and set the learning activities to improve
the students’ speaking skill. The data that were gotten from the observation sheet, field notes and interviewed showed that
using movies made the students not being bored in speaking class. It also helped
the teacher in teaching English because the media guided the teacher to achieve
the purpose in the classroom. It was easier for the teacher to handle the material
and helped the students in increasing their motivation in teaching and learning process.
The media helped
the
teacher not to spent more energy
to explain the material and attract students’ attention. Besides that, avoided
students’ boring. It is
supported by Trianto (2010) who says
that the benefits are the first, the material will be clearer for the students.
The second, the teacher will use various teaching methodology in the classroom. The third, the students will be active in doing many learning
activities. The forth, the students will be interested in teaching
and learning process.
The third factor was classroom activities. The variation of the classroom activities and classroom management. The classroom
management was done by the teacher to create good situation where students
learned and studied comfortably. This finding of the research was supported
by Jones (1997), an effective classroom management includes several areas in teaching
learning process. It should be based on good understanding of the current research and theory; it had to build strong
relationship among the teacher and the students because the relationship can create
a comfortable classroom. The classroom management that was created by the teacher was good, the teacher was already
to help and guide the students in teaching learning process.
The fifth factor
was the teacher’s strategy in teaching and learning process.
Based on the observation and interview,
it found that the teacher’s
strategy was good in helping the students in expressing the spoken
narratives by using audio visual in the classroom which is suitable with material
and learning activities. In line, Adam (2001), the teaching strategy can be applied
in condition those strategies should be suitable with the students’ condition, capability, and interest. Therefore,
the teacher should be smart and creative in collecting, selecting and engaging
the best strategy for the students. The students were more active and also helped
the students in speaking English.
The last factor
that influenced the change of students’ speaking skill was the teacher
approach in classroom activities. In line with this finding, Brown
(2001) said that the teacher
approach was important roles in managing the class. It has several
characteristic in language teaching, such as controller, director, manager, and facilitator and as
resources. Because of that, the
teacher approach had big
influence in speaking English, the teacher approach motivated the students and
helped them when they got problems in expressing sentences.
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