The Apllication of The Running Dictation Techniques to Improve the Students’ Speaking in Descriptive Text

Abstract

Classroom action research was applied in this research improvement of speaking through Running Dictation Techniques to Improve the Student’s Speaking in descriptive text. And find out the extent of using Running Dictation to improve speaking ability of second grade os SMP Muhammadiyah 05 Medan. This research is classroom action research, the subject of the research were thirty fourth students in the second grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 05 Medan. This research was conducted in stwo cycles; each cycle consists of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The researcher found several findings on it. The findings show that the students’ speaking increases from pre to post test. The mean of pre-test I is 55.88, the mean of post-test I is 63.5,the mean of pre-test II is 68.82, and the mean of post- test II is 92.35. The increasing percentages of students who pass in oral test in cycle I and cycle II are: 50% up to 67.64%. The decreasing percentages students who do not pass oral test are: 38.23% to 20.58%. It means that running dictation is able to improve the students’ speaking skill.