The Implementation of Index Card Match Learning Method by using Aquarium Quenser to Improve the Students’ Speaking Achievement

Abstract

This study dealt with the implementation of Index Card Match learning method to improve students’ achievement in speaking. It aimed 1) to investigate the improvement on the students’ speaking achievement by applying Index Card Match learning method 2) to describe the students’ activities in speaking through the implementation of Index Card Match learning method, and 3) to describe the teacher’s performance in speaking by applying Index Card Match learning method .This study was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR). Descriptive qualitative and quantitative design were applied to do the research. The subject of this research was all students in VIII-2 of SMP SWASTA BAKTI II Medan that consisted of 36 students. There were two kinds of data collected in this research, namely quatitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data were taken from the students’ scores on speaking, while the qualitative ones obtained from the observation of students’ activity and teacher’s performance in learning process. Those data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The research findings indicated that there was an improvement of students’ scores after appying Index Card Match learning method; In Pre-test, the students’ average score was 48.52 (no one got score more than 75), in Cycle I, the students’ average score was 69.41 with the graduation score 47.22%(17 people got score more than 75) and in Cycle II the students’ average score was 81.05 with the graduation score 83.33% (30 students got score more than 75). It meant that there was an improvement from Cycle I to Cycle II at 36.11%. It was also found that the students’ activities and teacher’s performance increased;the average percentage of students’ activity in the learning process was 50.34% in the first cycle and increased to 79.85% in the second. While, the teacher’s activity in learning had improved well with the average percentage of 57.69% in the first cycle and 76.44% in second cycle. Based on the results from quantitative and qualitative data analysis proved that Index Card Match learning method improved the students’ achievement in speaking