Application Of The Role Playing Method To Improve The Speaking skils Of Class V SDN Temaji III Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to improve speaking skills using the role-playing method of the fifth-grade students of Temaji III State Elementary School. This type of research is classroom action research conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of the planning, action, observation, and reflection stages using the role-playing method. The subjects of this study were students of class V SDN Temaji III in the 2019/2020 academic year, totaling 20 children. The object of this research is the students' speaking skills. Data collection in this study was carried out by observation methods, questionnaire methods, interview, and test methods and analyzed using quantitative descriptive analysis techniques and qualitative descriptions. The results show that in the first cycle the classical average score of speaking skills was 74, and the classical average score in the second cycle was 81. This indicates that there has been an increase in the speaking skills of the fifth-grade students of SDN Temaji III by using the role-playing method.