Puspitasari, Yulia (2018) Improving The Students Speaking Performance Through Story Completion Technique at The Eighth Graders of SMP Kartikatama Metro in The Academic Year of 2018/ 2019. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The goal of teaching speaking is the students can communicate in the target language. The students find some difficulties in mastering the speaking. Therefore, the teacher expected to be more creative to choose the technique applied in the classroom.Storycompletionis one of techniquethat give students chance to speak up by their ownword.This research is aimed to find out whether the story completion can improvethe students speaking performance. This research is classroom action research. The researchused test, observation, documentation to collect the data.

The classroom action research was conducted by 2 cycle. There are four steps in each cycle : they are planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The researcher gave one pre-test before treatment,two treatment and two post-test, the subject of this action research are the eight graders in SMP KartikatamaMetro. This research used 26 students as object of research. The researcher used average formula to prove whether hypothesis is accepted or rejected.

The invention of this research shows that there was increased from cycle 1 to cycle 2. The result from the data in cycle 1, it was gained the average score of pre-test was 62,11 and post test 64,88 and post test from cycle 2 was gained the average score 66,19 The result of cycle 2 is higher than the result of post-test at cycle 1. The condition of the class was getting better. The students pay attention to teacher‟s explanation in learning activity. The students are more active in learning process. The students can speak in front of class. It means that the use of story completion canimprovethe students speaking performance at the eight graders of SMP Kartikatama Metro.

Keywords:Speaking Performance, Story Completion Technique, classroom action research (CAR).

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