Muhammad Didik .A Wijayanto, , 2201406071 (2012) Chain Work using Flash Cards as a Technique to Improve Speaking Ability of Elementary School Students (An Action Research on the Fifth Grade Students of Elementary School Cepoko Gunungpati Academic Year of 2011/2012). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The objectives of this study are to find out the improvement of students’ speaking skill through flash cards, and to find out the advantages of chain work using flash cards as a technique to improve the students’ speaking ability of the fifth grade students of elementary school Cepoko Gunungpati in the academic year of 2011/2012. This study was an action research. The population of this study was the fifth grade students of elementary school students Cepoko Gunungpati. The instruments used to obtain the data were a test, a questionnaire, and a field note. In doing the analysis, the writer used criterion of assessment written by Harris (1969) with little modification as a support to score the students' speaking performance. The result of this study showed that chain work using flash cards can be used as a technique to help the students improve their speaking ability. It was proved by the average score of the students' speaking test. The pre-test was 1.17 and the post test was 2.88. The improvement between the two means was 1.71. Based on the result of the study, the writer concluded that the speaking achievement of the fifth grade students of elementary school Cepoko Gunungpati in the academic year 2011/2012 improved after they had been taught with chain work using flash cards. Chain work using flash cards as a technique gave a lot of advantages. The benefits are that the students are not afraid to speak loudly, they work cooperatively, and their vocabularies improve. It makes the students enjoy and interested in the English teaching learning activities. Therefore, they are not bored with the classroom activity. The writer suggested that English teachers need to upgrade the way of teaching. The teachers should try another way in teaching speaking using flash cards. They must give more attention to the students' desire in the teaching learning process. When the students face the difficulty in pronouncing words on the flash cards, the teacher should try to combine it with the voice of native speaker in a program recorder such as cassette or video. S/he should be more creative and should be able to create enjoyable teaching and learning process to make students more motivated to speak English.

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