AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH CONVERSATION CLUB ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT STUDENT SPEAKING SKILL AT SMPN 1 KALITIDU THESIS

NINGSIH, SRI (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH CONVERSATION CLUB ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT STUDENT SPEAKING SKILL AT SMPN 1 KALITIDU THESIS. Other thesis, IKIP PGRI BOJONEGORO.

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Ningsih, Sri, 2023. An Analysis of English Conversation Club Activities to Support Student Speaking Skill at SMPN 1 Kalitidu, Thesis, English Education Department, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro, Advisor (I) Dr. Refi Ranto Rozak, M.Pd., (II) Chyntia Heru Woro Prastiwi, M.Pd. Keywords: Speaking, Activities, Extracurricular, English Conversation Club This study examined the English Conversation Club's initiatives to help students at SMPN 1 Kalitidu improve their oral communication abilities. Three research questions are addressed in this study. How are students' speaking abilities encouraged by the English Conversation Club's activities? What instructional strategies does the English Conversation Club teacher employ to help students improve their speaking abilities? What are student’s opinion about English Conversation Club? The study's goals are to ascertain whether the activities in the English Conversation Club are successful in promoting students' speaking abilities, to describe the teaching strategy the teacher employs in the club to support students' speaking abilities, and to learn what the students think of the club's success in enhancing their speaking abilities. The study employed a descriptive approach and concentrated on examining the English Conversation Club activities, the teacher's methods of instruction, and the views of the students. The researcher was the major piece of equipment used in the study. In order to gather the information, she did an in-depth interview and a process of observation and documentation. Observation logs and transcripts of interviews served as the primary data collection tools. These are the types of information: utterances, words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. The researcher employed theorists Miles and Huberman to examine the data. There are three steps: data reduction, data visualization, and conclusion verification. Utilized the triangulation technique, the data's reliability was ascertained. The 20-student English Conversation Club served as the study's sample, and its student participant was that group. Based on deliberate sampling, they were picked. From May to June 2023, the research was carried out. According to the research, discussion, conversation, game-playing, guessing a word, and monologue are some of the activities used in English conversation clubs to help students improve their speaking abilities. Speaking was taught by the teacher using a game-based approach. Audio-visual and picture are media to taught speaking at English Conversation Club. The materials were utilised. Vocabulary, the simple past tense, and a descriptive text were the sources of information. According to the student's opinion of English Conversation Club, it is an extracurricular English language institute. There are challenges with the kids' lethargy, bad pronunciation, and grammatical comprehension issues. Students also voiced their ideas, stating that joining an English conversation group will increase confidence, help them become better speakers, and make it simpler to grasp English.

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