IMPROVING INDONESIAN EFL STUDENTS’ SPEAKING

ABILITY THROUGH TOPIC BASED-PAIRED

CONVERSATION
 Speakers Profile
Speaker
His name is Rahmatullah Syaripuddin. He was born on Ujung
Pandang, 12th October 1995. He got his bachelor degree at
Muhammadiyah University of Parepare in 2017. He is a
postgraduate student of Muhammadiyah University of Parepare.
His research interests are Curriculum and Material Development
(CMD) and English Language Teaching (ELT). He can be reached at
rahmatullah.syaripuddin@gmail.com

Co-Speaker

His name is Ammang Latifa. He is a lecturer at Muhammadiyah

University of Parepare. He got his doctoral degree in 2016. His
research interest is English Language Teaching . He can be reached
at ammang_latifa@yahoo.com
 Speakers Profile

Co-Speaker
Her name is Wahyunida Damier. She was born on Batu
Karampuang, 5th May 1995. She got her bachelor degree at STAIN
Parepare in 2017. She is a postgraduate student of
Muhammadiyah University of Parepare. Her research interest is
English Language Teaching (ELT). She can be reached at 
ayudealova569@gmail.com

Co-Speaker
His name is Abd. Wahhaab Syulpia. He was born on Enrekang, 7th
July 1990. He got his bachelor degree at Muhammadiyah
University of Makassar in 2012. He is a postgraduate student of
Muhammadiyah University of Parepare. His research interest is
English Language Teaching (ELT). He can be reached at 
abdul_wahhaabsyulpia@yahoo.com
 INTRODUCTION

English is used in almost worldwide: It plays an important role

in constructing the global aspects such as technology, business,
agriculture, economic, scientific, research, social interaction,
application, etc.

The existence of English in Indonesia: English is a compulsory

subject from junior high school up to senior high school because the
government had been putting it on the national curriculum.
 INTRODUCTION

The skills to be studied by Indonesian EFL

Students: On the national curriculum of Indonesia
2016, English has four skills to be studied; those are
reading, speaking, listening, and writing. Moreover,
there are also four aspects of it; those are vocabulary,
pronunciation, structure and grammar.
 INTRODUCTION

Indonesia EFL students’ speaking ability:

 The students’ speaking mean score was 27 and it

was collected through interview test.

 The result discovered that 63 % of students stated that

they were unsatisfied on the teaching activity in their
classroom
 Research Question

Does the implementation of topic based-paired conversation

improve the Indonesian EFL students’ speaking ability?
 The Objective of the Research

To find out whether or not the implementation of topic based-

paired conversation improves the Indonesian EFL students’
speaking ability.
 Literature Review

Teaching speaking:
Some activities in teaching speaking: Discussion, Simulation,
Information gap, Brainstorming, Interview, Reporting, and Find
the Difference (Kayi, 2006; Efrizal, 2012; Oradee, 2012; Fitriani
et.al, 2013; Javid, 2013; Agus et.al, 2014; Asrobi et.al, 2013;
Effendi, 2015; AlMuatiri, 2013; Somjay and Jansen, 2015).
 Literature Review

Definition of topic based-paired conversation:

Topic based-paired conversation activity is the activity that
developed Topic Talk (TT) intervention activity on the confidence
of students to utilize English orally consisting of five steps of
activities, namely deciding conversation partner, topic giving,
brainstorming, information seeking and sharing, and
conversation activity with the partner. (DeSteffen, 2015). While
pair work is one of the interaction patterns used in the modern
languages classroom, such as English as a second language (ESL)
or English as a foreign language (EFL) (Achmad and Yusuf, 2014).
 Literature Review

Criteria of a good topic based-paired conversation:

Criteria of a good topic based-paired conversation activity is a
teacher should maximally handle the classroom and give a
chance to the students for seeking and sharing information with
their partner (Chappel, 2013).
 Conceptual Framework

INPUT

The speaking ability of the

students was low
PROCESS PROCESS
Experimental Class: Control Class:
Teaching speaking through Teaching speaking through
topic based- paired report activity
conversation activity
OUTPUT

The students’ speaking

ability
 Statistical Hypotheses

H0 = There is not any significant difference between

Indonesian EFL students’ speaking ability who are taught
through topic based-paired conversation and report activity.

H1 = There is a significant difference between

Indonesian EFL students’ speaking ability who are taught
through topic based-paired conversation and report activity.
 Research Methodology

Research Design
The research is the quasi-experimental, with non-equivalent
control group design.

Population and Sample

The population of this research was the eleventh grade
students of SMA Negeri 3 Parepare academic year 2016/2017.
There were two classes of IPA, namely IPA 1 and IPA 2:
consisting of 31 students each. So the total number of population
was 62 students. The sample was taken by using total sampling
technique.
 Research Methodology

Instrument of the Research

To find out the improvement of teaching speaking through
topic based paired conversation, the researcher gave interview
test to the students. In interview test, the researcher gave several
topics to be chosen by the students and then the researcher gave
1 to 3 minutes to be explained by the students.

Procedure of Collecting Data

Pre-test
Post-test
 Research Methodology

Treatment in Experimental Class

 Instructing the students to gate the teammate

 Giving Topic
 Looking information
 Showing a video related to the given topic
 Providing a brainstorming table
 Conversation activity
 Research Methodology

Treatment in Control Class

 Giving Topic
 Looking Information
 Showing a video related to the given topic
 Reporting the information in front of the class
 Findings and Discussion
The Frequency and Precentage Score of the Pre-test
 Findings and Discussion
The Frequency and Precentage Score of the Post-test
 Findings and Discussion
The mean score and Standard Deviation of the Students in Pre-test

The mean score and Standard Deviation of the Students in Post-test

 Findings and Discussion

The gain score in pre-test and post-test

 Hypotheses Testing
The significance and probability value in pre-test
 Hypotheses Testing
The significance and probability value in post-test
 Hypotheses Testing
The significance and probability value of students gain score
 Conclusion

“Teaching speaking through topic based-pired

conversation activity improved the Indonesian
EFL students’ speaking ability.”
 Suggestion

For the English teacher

For the students

For the curriculum designer

For the next researcher

THANK YOU