Improving Student’s Speaking Ability Through Role Play Method

The research aimed to find out whether used role play method improve students speaking skills in English and to find out students responses about the role play method in improving their speaking skills. This research is quantitative the methods used in data collection are pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire. In this study, students were given one pre-test before treatment, and one post-test after treatment to saw student responses by distributing questionnaires. The sub-ject of this research was class IX 5 Mtsn 4 Banda Aceh, which consisted of 28 students.This study used the hypotheses t-score and t-table.
Based on the results of the discussion of this study, it was obtained from the first result, namely the result of the pre-test average of 35,85. In addition, the researcher evaluated the average value of each ability that was completed by students: fluency 25, vocabulary 39, grammar 30, pronunciation 25, and compre-hension 30. While the second result, namely the post-test, obtained an average value of 71.82. Besides that, the researcher also evaluated the average value of each student's ability: fluency 66, vocabulary 75, grammar 70, pronunciation 65, dan comprehension 75. The result of this post-test it saw much better than the previous pre-test scores and it concluded that the use of the role-play method in speaking English helps children in improving students English speaking ability. The significant in the t-table level of 5% showed the score with df 54. The method of testing the hypothetical with t-score in the analysis is if t- score > t-table then the hypothesis is accepted, otherwise if t- score < t-table then the hypothesis is re-jected. The final result shows that the t- score is 4,084 and the t-table is (1.67). So, result shows that the t- score > than t-table.
From the second problem saw the students responses through the question-naire, the findings show that students agree that the role play method has advantages in the process of learning English especially in terms of speaking and they also agree that the role play method improve their speaking skills. In addi-tion, students also feel that role play help them to express their ideas and be able to solve problems in the learning process, especially in terms of speaking English and they are also motivated to be even more active in learning English at a high level.