Ratna Dwi Yuniarti , 2201405514 (2009) The Use of Information Gap in Developing the Students’ Speaking Skill (The Case of Grade VII Students of SMP N 2 Tegowanu-Grobogan Academic Year of 2008/2009). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The topic of this study is the use of Information Gap in developing the students’ speaking skill – the case of grade VII students of SMP N 2 Tegowanu- Grobogan academic year of 2008/2009. In this study, I limited the discussion by stating these following problems: 1) to what extent is Information Gap effective to develop the students’ speaking skill of the grade VII Junior High School students? and 2) what are the advantages and disadvantages of using Information Gap in teaching speaking to the grade VII students of Junior High School? Afterwards, the objectives of the study were 1) to investigate whether using Information Gap effective to develop the speaking skill of the grade VII students of Junior High School. 2) to find out the advantages and disadvantages of using Information Gap in teaching speaking to the grade VII students of Junior High School. Classroom action research approach was adopted by conducting two cycles in which four activities for each cycle, namely planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The population of the study was the grade VII students of SMP N 2 Tegowanu-Grobogan in the academic year 2008/2009. There were 6 classes consist of 253 students. Then, class VII F which consisted of 42 students were taken as the subject of the study. The methods used for obtaining the study were collecting data from the students’ test cycle 1 and test cycle 2, fields note, and questionnaire. There were four meetings in this study, first and second meeting were held for cycle 1, which consists of treatment and test cycle 1. It continued with the cycle 2 as the revised activities from cycle 1, which consists of treatment and test cycle 2 in the third and fourth meetings. Beside that, the students got a questionnaire in the fourth meeting. The result of the students’ progress during the teaching learning process by using Information Gap was very good. It could be seen from the students’ achievement in expressing some expressions which are proposed in standard competence and basic competence of school based curriculum. Beside that, the students’ achievement increased from the first meeting to the last meeting. It could be seen from the average score 13.64 and 14.36 in test cycle 1 and test cycle 2. It meant that the use of Information Gap was the effective technique in teaching speaking by considering the implementation of group work, choosing some interesting materials and applying some procedures, namely the students got brainstorming related to the materials and practiced pronouncing some expressions by using Combination Drill, then they did the activities card consisted of incomplete information in the form of games, dialogues, pictures; etc that had been prepared in pairs and groups in front of the class. Referring to the analysis of the use Information Gap in developing the students’ speaking skill, it could be identified that the advantages Information Gap are it could reduce the students’ nervousness to speak English, made speaking lesson become more enjoyable, motivated the students to speak English and taught the students how to ask and give information to their friends. However, there were some its disadvantages, namely it consumed much time to do or conduct, demanded the teachers to be skilful in controlling the class because the students were sometime lazy to do the teacher’s task and felt confused in saying the expressions what they want to say in the task. Therefore, teachers should always try to find the better technique for their teaching. Based on the result, the use of Information Gap could be said as the one of the best effective technique in developing the students’ speaking skill.

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