ENHANCING SPEAKING SKILLS OF THE NINTH GRADESTUDENTS AT TAMPITYAKHAN SCHOOL PATANI SOUTHOF THAILAND BY USING ACTIVITY BASED ENGLISHLEARNING

ABSTRACTNureesar neso. Student Registered Number. 17203153185. 2019. Enhancingspeaking skills of the ninth grade students at Tampityakhan School Patani Southof Thailand by using activity based english learning. Sarjana Thesis. EnglishEducation Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State IslamicInstitute (IAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Nursamsu, M.Pd.Keywords: Activity based, in enhancing.Speaking is one of English skill to communicate with other. Speaking isvery important for people especially for students. One interesting method that canmake the students feel enjoy in speaking class is activity based English method.Activities based English learning can also give positive effects on the students’interest and motivation in studying English as well as to increase their speakingskill. Activity based method gives the students can be enhancing an opportunity topractice short conversation in a class. Furthermore, by using this method, thestudents will have a chance to speak English with the others.The statement of the research problem can be stated as follows: 1 ) How canActivity Based English Learning enhance strategies speaking skill?The objective of this study as follow: 1 ) To know Activity Based EnglishLearning enhance strategies speaking skill.The research design used was Classroom Action Research (CAR) byKemmis and Taggar that categorized into qualitative study. The participants werethe students of nine grade of Thampityakhan school. The researcher collaboratedwith the English teacher to apply the Activity based method to teach speaking tostudents of nine grade of Thampityakhan school. The data source in thisresearcher is questionnaire that given by the researcher to the students. Inanalyzing the data gotten from each cycle, the researcher used the gained scoreformula then compared them with the individual and class criteria of success. Inthis research the individual criteria of success was 75.From the data of the preliminary study, cycle I, and cycle II were shownthat the students’ speaking skill enhancing. From the data of the preliminary study,cycle I, and cycle II were shown that the students’ speaking skill improved. In thepreliminary study, there were 6 students could not reach passing grade, and 5students got good score. It means, there were 45% students got success. Then incycle I, there were 4 students could not reach the passing grade, and 7 studentspassed. It means, there were 63 % students got success. This had not fulfilled thestandard criteria of this research, that was 63 % from the total students. Based on thereflection of cycle 1, the researcher conducted cycle 2. In cycle II, revealed thatthere were 2 students could not reach the passing grade, and 9 students reach thepassing grade. It means, there were 90 % students got success. So, there wereincrease score from pre-test, test of cycle 1, cycle 2. Studying from the result, itcan be concluded that the implementation of activity based method could beenhancing students’ skill in speaking. Furthermore, it is suggested to the studentsto use activity based to learn speaking. The teacher also must be more creative andinnovative in teaching in the classroom.