Nama: Dinda Fatimah

NIM: 211230031
Kelas: TBI 5B

CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH IN SPEAKING ENGLISH LEARNING

Introduction
Research in English learning is a scientific activity that aims at
investigating the rules that work in the process of English learning.
Understanding a process of English teaching means being able to explain the
system, rules, patterns, or formula, in the process of English teaching (Marshall
& Rossman, 1995:16)Researchers believe that an effective process of English
teaching is based on a certain system, rules, patterns, formula, or regularity. It is
this system that is going to be discovered by researchers in English teaching.
One of the types of the research in English learning is classroom action
research. This research aims to improve the quality of English teaching in the
classroom. So, English teachers and the students of English departments as
prospective English teachers should understand well about this type of research.
The reality shows that some of English teachers and the students in
English department do not understand well how to conduct classroom action
research. The main question is “what should be done in every step of classroom
action research.

Method of the Research

The method of this research is action research. Defined by Northeast
Conference in George University (1998), action research is classroom-based research
conducted by teachers in order to reflect upon and evolve their teaching. It is
systematic, documented inquiry into one aspec of teaching and learning in a specific
classroom.
The method used in this research is action research. Wallace (1998) in Burns
(1999:30) states that action research is a process that is done by systematically
collecting data on someone‟s everyday practice and analyzing it in order to come to
some decisions about what the future practice should be. Wallace‟s opinion is
supported by Carr and Kemmis (1986) in Burns (1999: 30). They state that Action
Research is a self-reflection done by participants to judge their own practices in order
to improve it. Here, the participants are not only judge their practices, but also
understanding it and the situation in which their practices are carried out.
 The model of action research is the framework in undertaking a classroom
action research. It can be concluded that the steps of the research including planning,
action, observation, and reflection are included in the part of procedures of this
research. In conducting this classroom action research, there is collaboration between
the writer and the English teacher. The procedures of action research in this research
can be seen as follows:
a. Identifying the problem
The writer as the observer in this research identifies the problem. The
problem refers to the students‟ speaking ability that is still low.
b. Carrying out the real classroom research

1) Planning
The activities in the planning are:
a) Preparing materials, making lesson – plan, and designing the steps in
doing action the action
b) Preparing list of students‟ name and scoring
c) Preparing teaching – aids (e.g. the chips which is used in activity)
d) Preparing sheets for classroom observation (to know the situation of
teaching-learning process when the method or technique is applied)
e) Preparing a test (to know whether students‟ participation improves or
not).
2) Acting
The researcher made an agreement to the teacher on:
a) Teaching English by using the Role Play Technique.
b) Giving occasion to the students to ask any difficulties or problems.
c) Asking students to use Role Play Technique again in their group
during the discussion.
d) Asking some of students to present the result of the discussion with
their group in front of the class.
e) Giving test1.
f) Teaching speaking skill by using Role Play Technique.
g) Giving occasion to the students to ask any difficulties or problems.
h) Asking students to use Role Play Technique again in their group
during the discussion.
i) Asking some of students to present the result of the discussion with
their group in front of the class.
 j) Giving test.
3) Observing
Observation is one of the instruments used in collecting the data.
The observer observes all activities in teaching and learning process
while the teacher is teaching. The result of the observation was recorded on
her observation sheets as the useful data.

4) Reflection
observer makes an evaluation based on the observation to find the
weaknesses of the activities that have been carried out in using Role Play
Technique to see whether the students‟ speaking skill improves or not.

Examples for Teaching learning activities

The first meeting

Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities Time
Pree activity 15 minutes

- Greeting - Students response to

the Teacher
- Check The Students
attendance

- The Teacher - The students make

Instructed the students a group, every
to make a group group has 6
(random) students

- Telling the Topic and

Materials

- Warming up obout the

simple conversation
 Core activity 65 minutes

- The teacher give - Students read and

an example scirpt comprehending the
conversation script conversation

- The teacher Show or - The students

play examples of short whatching a short film
film and videos about and videos
real conversation conversation

- The teacher ask the - Students practice in

students to practice front of class to
in front of class with conversation training
the simple
conversation
- The students make a
- The teacher ask the script conversation
students make a like the exampleof the
script conversation teacher

The teacher ask the

students to make a - The students prepare
short film and role the tools and properties
play of students’ for making
script conversation short film (doesn’t
(min duration 5 have tobe really
minutes) , The teacher complicated and
gives time one week expensive)
to make a short film.
- The students to
- The teacher determine the topic
accompanying the ,characters ,theme ,and
students during process place to taking video
of making short film
- And the finall the
students editing and
finishing together the
short film
The last activity

- The teacher instruction - Students note the

to collect the Short film instruction of the
on the next week or teacher
next meeting

- The teacher closing the

class and pray together
 SECOND MEETING

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Time

Pre activity 15 minutes

- Greeting - Students respond to

- Check the students the teacher
attendance
- Teacher ask the
students to collect
the short film of
every group
Core activity 65 minutes

- The teacher ask the - The Students

students performance in practice and
front of class as post performance in front
test of class

- The students act like

- The teacher in their short film
assessing the
students
performance
Last activity 10 minutes

- The teacher show - The students show

the creation of the their short film one
students’ short film by one of the
group
- The teacher gives - The student get a
reward to the best reward of the
group performance best short film

- The teacher
suggestion to upload
short film in youtube

- The teacher closing - The students

the teaching and response the teacher
learning activities
and pray together