ACADEMIC WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1

NAME            :           Awwalia Fitrotin Izza

NIM                :           2201411126

THE USE OF MINI DRAMA IN TEACHING SPOKEN  NARRATIVE TEXT

 (An Action Research at the Grade XI of SMA Negeri 1 Grobogan in the Academic year of 2010/2011).

IDENTITY

Author                         :           Nena Andriyani

NIM                            :           2201405531

Year of Graduation     :           2011

CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION

1.3 Statement of the Problem

      Based on the background above she wants to state the problem as follows:

1.      What problem does the teacher face in teaching spoken narrative text?

2.      How mini drama be used in teaching spoken narrative text?

3.      To what extent the use of mini drama improve the students’ speaking ability in spoken narrative text?

1.4 Objective of the Study

      The objectives of this study are:

1.      To know what problem does the teacher face in teaching spoken narrative text.

2.      To describe how mini drama be used in teaching spoken narrative text.

3.      To analyze to what extent the use of mini drama improve the students speaking ability in spoken narrative text.

CHAPTER II : REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1       The characteristics of Senior High School Students.

2.2       Speaking

2.2.1    General Concept of Speaking

2.2.2    Teaching Speaking in Senior High School

2.2.3    Teaching Speaking by Using Drama

2.3       Drama

2.3.1    Definition of Drama

2.3.2    The Elements of Drama

2.4       Narrative

2.4.1    Definition of Narrative

2.4.2    Narrative in Drama

2.5       Action Research

2.5.1    Definition of Action Research

2.5.2    Steps of Action Research

2.5.3    The Use of Action Research for Teachers

CHAPTER III : METHODS OF INVESTIGATION

3.1              Research Design

									Action of Cycle 1
	Problem				Planning of Cycle 1

 

Reflection of Cycle 1

Observing of Cycle 1

Cycle 1

Action of Cycle 2

Unsolved Problem

Planning of Cycle 2

Reflecting of Cycle 2

Observing of Cycle 2

 

3.5              Procedures of Collecting Data

Took some oral test during the research to know the students’ speaking skill. They were pretest and cycle test.

Pretest  :            -    Students were divided into seven groups, then the teacher gave script    drama and asked the  students to learn about scene one.

-          The teacher asked the students to read and memorize it before practicing it in front of the class. While they were playing scene one, the teacher records the voice of students’ performance to know their initial speaking ability.

Cycle test :       -    Divided class into three groups, then give them script drama.

-          They were asked playing mini drama out in the front of the class.

-          Just like in pretest, teacher gave score based on their performance.

The procedures of cycle 2 test was similar to the two previous tests. The purpose of this test was to measure the improvement of the students speaking skill.

CHAPTER IV : DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION

            Chapter IV discusses the analysis of the data taken from the research, there are the analysis of pretest, the analysis of the activities in cycle 1, the analysis of the cycle 1 test, the analysis of the activities in cycle 2, the analysis of cycle 2 test, the improvement of the students’ speaking skill, the analysis of field notes, and the advantages and disadvantages of the use of mini drama in teaching speaking.

4.1  Analysis of Pretest

            The average of the students’ test was 53,89.

4.2  Analysis of Activities in Cycle 1

            Activity in cycle 1 was conducting research of the use of mini drama in teaching speaking. It is one of an alternative techniques in teaching spoken narrative.

4.3  Analysis of cycle 1 test

            The average of the students’ test result in cycle 1 was 63,81.

4.4  Analysis of activities in cycle 2 test

            - Made a planning

- Did the activities as have made in lesson plan.

- Observe all activities during the research.

- Reflected the activities from the first until the last.

Found that the students made a progress in speaking.

4.5  Analysis of cycle 2 test

            The average of the students’ test result in cycle 2 was 76,19.

4.6  The improvement of the students’ speaking skill.

            There are improvements in every tests.

4.7  Analysis of field notes.

            Used field notes to support research that is to know the development of the researcher’s way of teaching and the students’ progress in teaching learning process.

CHAPTER V : CONCLUTION AND SUGGESTION

5.1  Conclusions

            The main problem that the teacher faces in teaching spoken narrative text were the students are very poor in speaking, they made so many errors, especially in pronounciation, and their vocabularies were also very limited. The using mini drama in teaching speaking is effective to be applied in teaching learning process. It is also can be concluded that the students enthusiastic to learn speaking by perform mini drama.