Improving the Students’ Speaking Skills Through Inside-Outside Circle Strategy at the Second Grade of Cerdas Murni Junior High School Tembung

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The objective of this reasearch was to improve the students speaking skill through inside-outside circle strategy. The subject of this research were 26 students at eight grade and the collaborator was English teacher of SMP Cerdas Murni Tembung in academic year 2018/2019. This research was conducted by using classroom action research by Kemmis and Mc Taggart which consisted of 2 cycles. There were two kinds of technique in analyzing data, first was qualitative data which obtained from observation, interview, field note and documentation that was analyzed by using Miles and Huberman technique, second was the quantitative data were obtained from speaking test that was analyzed by using t-test.
The result of this research showed that there was an improvement of students’ speaking skill. It could be seen from the data analysis that the pre-test of the students mean score was 61,15 in which there were only 4 or 15% of 26 students who passed the minimum passing grade. In post-test I, the mean score of students’ score was 68,80 in which there were 16 students or 61% of the students who passed the minimum passing grade. At the last, the mean score of students’ score in post-test II was 76,38 that there were 21 students or 80% of the students who passed the minimum passing grade. It indicated that inside-outside circle strategy can improve students’ speaking skill. It means that there was a significant effect of applying inside-outside circle strategy at eight grade.

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