USING REPETITION DRILL TECHNIQUE

TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S PRONUNCIATION SKILL

IN MTs. HIDAYATUL ATHFAL SERANG

IN 2014/2015

A Classroom Action Research

By :

OVI SOVINA EKAWATI

102300914

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Students have difficulties to pronunce English

Most of students spell English based on the text, they

doesn’t pronunce the words correctly.

Students afraid to make mistakes

Students rarely get An English Pronunciation Lesson

Students rarely practice English pronunciation

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

Describing the implementation of Repetition

Drill Technique to improve the students’

pronounciation.

Describing the improvement of the students’

pronounciation.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The result of the research can be useful for students who

want to improve their pronunciation skill.

The result will help the teacher increasing the students’

pronunciation.

The result of the research is used as the reference for

those who want to conduct a research of students’

pronunciation using Repetition Drill Technique.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Pronunciation is “to say the sounds right, to use the words to

express the appropriate meanings, or construct their sentences in

a way that sounds acceptable”. ( Penny Ur, 1996)

Repetition drill is when Students are asked to listen carefully to

the teacher's model, and then they have to repeat as accurately

and as quickly as possible. (http://eltnotebook.blogspot.com)

Example of Repetition Drill :

Teacher: "Hi, Mark. How's it going?......(repeat)

Students: "Hi, Mark. How's it going

RESEARCH METHOD

The writer used Classroom Action Research (CAR)

The design of CAR according to Carr & Kemmis :

RESEARCH SETTING

Location : MTs Satu Atap Hidayatul Athfal Serang

Subject : 27 Students at grade VII C

Object : Teaching pronunciation in speaking class

using repetition drill method

Time : September 29th - 30th, 2014

METHOD OF COLLECTING DATA

Observation

The writer as the teacher interacts with the students

and observes their pronunciation.

Test

The writer used oral test in 3 phase ; Pre-cycle, cycle

1 and cycle 2.

TECHNIQUE FOR ANALYZING DATA

To analyze the data of this research, the writer used

two formulas :

Mean Score (Average Score)

Affective Score (in observation sheet)

RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION

Mean Score table

Pre- Cycle Cycle 1 Cycle 2

50,4 66,0 76,5

Low

AbilityMean score didn’t

pass the minimum

standard of score

(<75)

Improved

butLow achievement,

Mean score didn’t

pass the minimum

standard score

(<75)

ImprovedThe researcher

achieved the

success indicator

that passed the

minimum standard

score (>75)

RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION

Mean Score Graphic

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25

Mean Score Graphic

pre-cycle

cycle 1

cycle 2

CONCLUSION

Based on the writer’s observation, repetition drill has

been successfully improving the students’

pronunciation. It can be measured that the students

could improve their pronunciation mean score more

than 75, that it was criterion for CAR success. Thus, the

implementation of repetition drills in improving the

students’ pronunciation, especially at VII C of MTs

Satu Atap Hidayatul Athfal Serang is successful.