TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING FLUENCY BY USING DRAMA

Abstract

Drama can encourage students to actively participate in teaching learning English process. Hopefully, Drama can motivate students to increase their speaking fluency. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 1 Ketapang. This research involved 26 students of Bilingual Class. This study was designed in the form of pre-experimental research, and the data of this research were obtained by videos to take students’ performance. There are some aspects of speaking fluency for this research. They are vocabulary and expression, structures, speaks smoothly, develop the interaction, pronunciation and intonation. These aspects used to analysis scores of students. The data analysis indicates that the mean score of the students’ pre-test is 71,15, while the mean score of the students’ post-test is 79,03. The interval score of post-test and pre-test is 7,88. It means that teaching speaking fluency by using Drama can increase the students’ speaking fluency.

Keywords: Speaking, Fluency, Drama