Summary Journal Teaching 1

International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 6, Issue 3, March 2016

The Use of Role Play to Improve Teaching Speaking 

*Arham R, **Abdul Hakim Yassi, **Burhanudin Arafah 

* English Study Program, Graduate Program, University of Hasanuddin, Indonesia 

** English Study Program, University of Hasanuddin, Indonesia

The research was about role play to improve teaching speaking. One technique that can be considered effective to stimulate speaking skill is role play. The aims of this study are make the students interest in learning english through role play to improve their speaking skill and to measure students’s skill in speaking performance through role play. Then the research location at STIKES Amanah Makassar. This research applied a quasy experimental study that decide in two group (experimental and control group). The population of this reasearch in Academic year of 2011-2012 is 286 students and the sample is 60 students in 2010 from fourth semester. There are 3 instrument for collecting the data, they are speaking, questionair and interview. Beside that, the data analysis of student’s speaking performance can look from 4 aspects, they are fluency, accurancy, prunounciation and vocabulary. The result of this study from the post-test and pre-test demonstrated a significant improvement in the quality of the students’ speaking performance in the experimental class while the quality of students’ speaking performance in control condition was slightly improved. To sum up, Role play strategy is effective to improve the students speaking performance and make the students interest in learning english learning through role play.