Ratnasari Nugraheni Sesilia Pramita Nari Santika

1. IMPROVING PGSD
STUDENTS’ SPEAKING
ABILITY THROUGH
DELIVERING SHORT
SPEECH AND LEADING
GAME
Ratnasari Nugraheni & Sesilia Pramita Nari
S.

2. Let’s have the same concept
first…
 English Club (EC) PGSD
 Delivering short speech (DS)
 Leading game (LD)

3. What to find out?
1. the impact of DS and LG in improving
students’ speaking abilities
2. the way students were motivated to
speak English  internal / external

4. The bases…
Communicative language teaching (CLT) helps
learners produce the ability to create and construct
utterances (Johnson & Porter, 1983)
Positive learning happens when learners have
enjoyable and satisfying experiences during the
learning process. (Hutchinson, Tom, & Waters
,1994)
Students who enjoy the process will be very
successful in learning language. (Lewis & Hill,
2002)

5. Details…
 Participants : 16 students from batch 2011
 Research done : August, 2012
 Experimental research
 Instrument :
- questionnaire (attitude + perception)
- score recap

6. Difficulties of speaking
English…
87.5% 87.5% 87.5%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
pronunciation grammar vocabulary

7. Difficulties of each activity…
Difficulties of DS Difficulties of LD
62.5%
50.0%
25.0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
did not know
how to
compose
forgot
sentences
did not
master the
topic
50.0%
37.5%
62.5%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
did not know
how to give
instruction
forgot steps did not know
how to
attract
attention

8. Students’ attitude…
37.5%
50.0% 50.0%
75.0%
87.5%
50.0%
37.5% 37.5%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
confident nothing
particular
nervous confused
DS
LD

9. Preferences…
DS
37.5%
LD
62.5%
Liking… More difficult?
DS
75.0%
LD
25.0%

10. Score…

11. So,…
LG is slightly better in improving speaking skill
than DS
Internal motivation  liking, attitude
(confident, and relaxed)

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