IMPROVING YOUNG LEARNERS SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH ROLE-PLAY

Cendana Kriswidyanovita

Abstract


In improving young learners speaking skill, role-play is one of the techniques that can stimulate students to communicate with fun. The activity will stimulate students to speak English and make learning alive. Role-Play also increases motivations and develops fluency in speaking. This study aims at finding out young learners’s improvement in speaking skill through role-play. The research method was quasi-experimental using non-randomized pre-test and post-test group as her design.  The writer gave two types of techniques in two different groups—Role Play in the experimental group and Presentation in the controlled one.The pretest and post-test was analyzed using t-test. The data shows a significant difference between pre-test and post-test scores among two groups.

 


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young learners, speaking, role-play

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v50i2.3954