IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH SONG REVIEW OF THE ELEVENTH GRADERS

Abstract

Song base learning can gain the ability of English skills of students. Then, speaking is the
most difficult skill that affects the activeness of the students. Moreover, based on the prelimary study,
there are just several students that advance in speaking skill/presentation. Most of all the students in
eleven science 1 class are average. So, the writer is interested to improve their speaking skill. Thus, the
writer is interested to research the improvement of speaking skill through song review of the eleventh
graders. By this article, the writer hopes that this article can answer the research question about how
song review can improve speaking skill? This article use action research study. The stucture of the
research about this action research study was adapted from Kemmis and McTaggart. This theory
focuses on describing the improvement of speaking skill through song review of the eleventh graders
in SMAN 8 Malang. Based on the students’ score and the reflection of the students, the action research
is successfully implemented in cycle 2, this assessment of speaking shows that 100% of students have
the improvement of speaking score.