Using Glass’Analysis Method to Improve the Students’ Speaking Skill at the First Year Students of SMP Negeri 1 Salomekko Kabupaten Bone

Kasmin Irwan, 2014. Using Glass’Analysis Method to Improve the Students’ Speaking Skill at the First Year Students of SMP Negeri 1 Salomekko Kabupaten Bone (An Experimental Research),.Under the thesis of English Education Department, the Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Muhammadiyah University of Makassar, guided by Fahmi Room and Nunung Anugrawati.

This research aimed at explaining the use of Glass’ Analysis Method in improving the students’ pronunciation in speaking at the first year students of SMP Negeri 1 Salomekko Kab. Bone.

The researcher used pre-experimental design with one group pretest and posttest design. The population was the first year students of SMP Negeri 1 Salomekko Kab. Bone., in academic year 2013/2014, which consisted of six classes. The sample was taken by purposive sampling technique and the total number of sample was 26 students. It conducted in six meetings. It was administered speaking test as instrument.

The findings of the data indicated that there was significant difference between students’ post-test and pre-test.  The mean score in post-test (8.10) was greater than the mean score in pre-test (5.42). From t-test, the researcher found that the value of t-test (8.61) was greater than t-table (2.060) at the level of significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) = 25. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected.It means that there was a significant difference in the students’ pronunciation in speaking before and after being taught by using Glass’ Analysis Method.

                                                    CHAPTER I

                                            INTRODUCTION

A.    Background

English is one of the human languages in the world that has important role in communication. It has become international language and almost practiced in all part of life, especially in this global era that has full of competition and English becomes one of determiners and assessments of the competition. So that it is important for us to learn the language. It is similar to the statement that English has dispersed and diversified, has been adopted and adapted as an international means of communication by communities all over the globe.

There are four skills that we have already known in English, namely writing, speaking, reading and listening. Later, the skills should be taught better to master and get complete thought about English itself because each skill has general or specific function in communicating. But we cannot deny that speaking is the most important one for asking information and conversely for delivering information, speaking is the direct system of communication.

Speaking is like the first assessment for each learner who is studying English and each learner has to speak. This statement means an obligation, duty, task, fact, implementation, process, and it can be learning, although we still find some students are speaking little or even passive in the classroom, and it can be caused of many things include the students, the class situation, environment, teaching method, technique, approach or even from the teachers who cannot deliver their material successfully.

In this last century, many linguists and educators give more attention in action research to teach English as a foreign language. According to Stephen Kemmis and Hopkins in Asy’ari(2012:2 ) that action research is a form of self reflective inquiry undertaken by participants in a social (including education) situation in order to improve the rationality and of their own social or educational practices justice, their understanding of these practices, and the situation in which practices are carried out.

The researcher has found similar case in SMP Negeri 3 Sungguminasa, VII.H class where the students cannot say something perfectly in English. They do not know what they must say and how to say, they look very confuse to express the ideas on their mind even not active enough on their speaking class, and it can be seen as the last score of the students that almost do not achieve minimal criteria, 64. According to the teacher’s experiences that the problem relates directly to the teaching method and how the teacher delivers material. There is no specific method to teach English, we are not controlling the class but we are controlled by the class and situation. Speaking is the most important lesson that the students should be mastered, but in fact speaking becomes the most difficult lesson to understand by the students, so that the speaking always becomes passive class in every meeting. Teaching speaking is an interesting and challenging duty for teacher for some considerations. An EFL teacher is asked to be more creative with flexible lesson planning in teaching this skill, like selecting an appropriate technique, materials, teaching instructions, teaching aids, and time allocation which can help the students in their process to speak the language well.

There are many techniques can be adopted by the teacher in teaching this skill, and one of them is Glass’ analysis method, and it is also recommended by the researcher after considering the case above. Glass’ analysis method is from the replaces oral English learning classroom with a conversation English experience.

Glass analysis method is a form of analytic phonics that is compatible with his research on how successful decoders acquired word decoding strategies. Glass research is supported by the conclusions being reached by many others as to how this ultimately is achieved. Glass Analysis resembles an old fashioned approach that taught high utility letter sound combinations. It teaches students to segment sound combinations and distinctive combination feature words.

In glass analysis, the act of decoding is temporarily decontextualized from comprehension in order to maximize the student focused attention on target words and word elements. Student are trained in conventional and personal word analysis strategies that center on studying and learning how certain letters excite one another meaning that because the reader has seen and sounded a particular letter cluster in whole words many and many words, when the letters appear as a cluster in unfamiliar words, the reader automatically identifies them and test-pronounces them as they are pronounced in the known words.

Based on the explanation above, the writer will conduct an experiment research about Using Glass’ Analysis Method to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill at the First Year of SMP Neg. 1 Salomekko Kab. Bone.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Kasmin Irwan is the second of the last child of Irwan and Hj. Tuwo. He was born on December 20^th 1990 in Salomekko, Bone. He has five brothers and threesisters. He lives in Bone, Province South Sulawesi.

He graduated him elementary school in 2003 at SD. Negeri 256 Malimongeng Kec. Salomekko Kab. Bone. He continued his study at SMP Negeri I Kajuara Kab. Bone and graduated in 2006. Him senior high school was at SMA Negeri I Kajuara Kab. Bone and graduated in 2009. At the 2009 years He was continued him study at the University and at that year He was accepted at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar as a student of English Educational Department.

              At the end of his study, He could finish his thesis with title “Using Glass’ Analysis Method to Improve the Students’ Speaking Skill at the First Year of SMP Negeri 1 Salomekko Kab. Bone. (An Experimental Research).”

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