DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE SPOKEN CYCLE TASKS TO IMPROVE THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ORAL SKILLS AT SMP NEGERI 1 BERBAH, YOGYAKARTA

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DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE SPOKEN CYCLE TASKS TO
IMPROVE THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ORAL SKILLS
AT SMP NEGERI 1 BERBAH, YOGYAKARTA
By:
Herni Setyowati
06202244151
ABSTRACT
This study is aimed at 1) designing communicative spoken cycle tasks for
the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Berbah, Yogyakarta in the second
semester and 2) finding the characteristics of appropriate communicative spoken
tasks for the seventh grade students of junior high school in the second semester
of academic year 2010/2011.
This is an Education Research and Development (R and D) study. The tasks
were designed based on the Standard of Competence and Basic Competency for
the seventh grade students of junior high schools. The participants of the study
were the seventh grade students and the English teachers at SMP Negeri 1 Berbah.
The steps of this study were conducting needs analysis, selecting the topics and
objective, writing the course grid, writing the materials, implementing the first
draft, revising the first draft, and writing the final draft. The instruments of the
study were questionnaires and interview guidelines. The techniques of collecting
the data were doing observation, distributing questionnaires and conducting
interviews. The data were in the forms of scores and interview transcripts. The
data were analyzed by calculating the percentage of scores, assigning the score of
the data, and describing the data which were in the forms of sentences and
interview transcripts.
The result of this study is a set of spoken cycle tasks. The designed tasks
have the characteristics of communicative spoken cycle tasks for the seventh
grade students, namely goal, input, activities, teacher roles, students? roles, and
setting. This is supported by the result of the second questionnaire that the mean
of each aspect ranged from 3.17 to 3.57. This figure reveals that the tasks are
considered good and acceptable for the seventh grade students of junior high
schools, specifically at SMP Negeri 1 Berbah, Yogyakarta. The tasks fit the
learners? needs and characteristics, namely 1) containing demands and support
that enable the learners to be involved in the tasks successfully, 2) including pre
task activities, task cycle, language focus, and practice, and 3) being based on the
goals, inputs, activities, teacher role, learner role, and settings.

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