Improving Students’ Speaking Achievement Trough Elicitation Technique

Abstract

This study was aimed to find out improvement the students’ speaking achievement through elicitation technique. This study apply classroom acton research. It was done through planning, action research. The location of the research was SMK Negeri 5 Medan Jl. Timor No.36 Medan. The subject of this research was tenth grade TOKR 4 students which consisted of 27 students. Based on the speaking through eliciatation technique score, students’ score keep improving in every test. In the pretest the mean score was 47.59, in the first cycle test the mean 56,48, and the second cycle the test mean score was 67.77. The improvement also can be seen from the percentage students got point more than 60. In the first cycle speaking daily activity, in pretest 18,5% students got point more than 60, in the first cycle test 48,1% students who got pint more than 60, and the increasing was 29.6% from pretest to cycle 1. In the second cycle test 100% students got point more than 60, and the increasing was 51.9% from cycle 1 and 2. It means that teaching speaking through elicitation technique by using picture of daily activity can improved the students’ speaking achievement through elicitation technique. Picture of daily activity made students’ were interested, have fun, and motivate them to speak trough elicitation technique.