Imam Safuan , 2201410154 (2017) THE USE OF LIMERICK THEATRE AS RESOURCEFUL MATERIAL IN DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL (A Case of the Eleventh Grade Students of Madrasah Aliyah Salafiyah Kajen Pati in Academic Year of 2016/2017). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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This final project presented the use of Limerick Theater as resourceful material to improve the students’ speaking skill. The objectives of this study was to find out whether teaching vocabulary using Limerick Theatre was effective to improve the students’ achievement in learning speaking in Madrasah Aliyah Salafiyah Kajen in the academic year 2016/2017. This action research was carried out through a pre-test, cycle 1, and cycle 2. In each cycle, there was a test. Those were formative-test in cycle 1 and post-test in cycle 2. Meanwhile, the tests, observation checklist, and questionnaire were used as the instruments in collecting data. The eleventh grade students of MA Salafiyah Kajen which consisted of 30 females were chosen as the subjects of this study. There were five meetings in this research. First meeting was used for conducting pre-test, the second and third meeting was used to conduct cycle 1 and formative-test cycle 1, the fourth and fifth meeting was used to conduct cycle 2 and post-test. The result of this study revealed that through the limerick theatre as resourceful material, the teacher was able to improve students’ speaking skill. The limerick theatre was applied in an interesting way and relaxing environment so that most of the students had positive behavior during the teaching learning process. This result is based on the analysis of the observation checklist and the questionnaire. In addition, there was significant improvement of the result of the students’ average score in each test. The average score of students’ pre-test result was 62. In the formative test, it increased 6.7 points become 68.7. The average score of students’ post-test was 77.2 and it was above the minimum score of MA Salafiyah Kajen. Therefore, it can be concluded that limerick theatre gives contribution to the improvement of the students’ speaking skill mastery.

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