Journal Review : ‘Improving The Students’ Speaking Ability Through English Song’ by Clara Liva

Name   : Dinda Riani

Class    : 4E

NPM    : 1910631060013

Journal : ‘Improving The Students’ Speaking Ability Through English Song’ by Clara Liva

Journal Review

 

This journal entitled "Improving The Students’ Speaking Ability Through English Song" was written by Clara Liva and published by the Tanjungpura University, Pontianak.

The purpose of the research is to improve students’ speaking ability through English Song. The research was conducted in order to solve the problem encountered in the classroom; the students are not interested in speaking English.

To collect the data, the writer chose speaking test, observation checklist, and field notes. The writer and research collaborator apply them to know the improvement of students’ speaking ability through English Song in each cycle. Through field notes, the writer reflected students’ performance in a meeting for the next cycle. The research took 3 cycles. The subjects of this research were 38 eighth grade class G students of SMPN 2 Sintang in academic year 2013/2014.

This research is conducted three cycles, where the writer used English Song entitled I Have a Dream in the first cycle and the second cycle, while Mother How Are You Today in the third cycle. There are four procedures of this research, namely planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Techniques of Data Collecting applied in this research are measurement and observation. In measurement, the writer measured students’ performances result each cycle through speaking assessment where students are asked to answer 5 questions related to English Song orally; one by one in front of the class through alphabetize. Meanwhile in observation, the writer observed the students’ performance by using observation checklist and alphabetize. 

There are four Tools of Data Collecting used in this research, namely Speaking Assessment, Learning Goals, Field Note, and Observation Checklist. In Speaking Assessment, students are asked to answer 5 questions orally related the English Song one by one in front of the class alphabetize in each cycle. The example of students’ speaking task used in data collection is in the first cycle, the writer used the song entitled I Have a Dream.

The result of the analysis, the research finding of the class room action research was satisfactory. The students’ speaking ability through English song had improved. The students were very enjoyment much. Even until this moment when the writer taught at the eighth grade, the students always ask to teach the English song. So, learned speaking by using English song as them form part of enjoyable experience. 

In conclusion, from the result of analysis, the writer found out that teaching speaking lesson through English song had improved students’ speaking ability and also gave them enjoyment. Students became not passive again and they were very happy and showing seriousness when the writer taught English speaking in the classroom at SMPN 2 Sintang. 

The main advantage of this journal is that the topic is very interesting. This journal also discusses a problem that is often faced by teachers around the world, namely how to improve students' speaking skill. This journal can be an option for teachers to improve students' speaking ability in new ways. The language used can be understood well. But, this article also has drawbacks, the use of tables that should be made neater.