Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Through Multiliteracies Pedagogy At The Tenth Grade Students Of Sman 8 Pekanbaru

Rafelina, Dea Putri (2019) Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Through Multiliteracies Pedagogy At The Tenth Grade Students Of Sman 8 Pekanbaru. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Nowadays, it is undeniable that speaking is considering as one of the important elements in language skills due to its function as one of tools to communicate globally. Relate to this case, this research was aimed to improve students’ speaking skills through multiliteracies pedagogy at the tenth grade students of SMAN 8 Pekanbaru. This research was classified as classroom action research which was carried out in two cycles and has four meetings in every cycle. This research took a place at SMAN 8 Pekanbaru with total of participants were 13 male and 23 female students of Mathematics and Science (MIPA) 3 class. The data were quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative data were obtained from students’ speaking performances score, while the qualitative data were collected from observation checklists, field notes and interviews. This research used a strategy to improve students speaking skill namely Multiliteracies pedagogy that integrates technology in teaching and learning process (New London Group, 1996). There eight knowledge stages used to improve students’ speaking skill; Experiencing the known, Experiencing the new, Conceptualising by naming, Conceptualising by theorising, Analysing functionally, Analysing critically, Applying Appropriately and Applying creatively (Cope & Kalantzis, 2015). Results of the research presented the improvement of students’ speaking skill which can be seen from the mean score percentage of each cycle; Base test (65.8%), cycle 1 (70.5%) and cycle 2 (72.7%). Hence, the implementation of multiliteracies pedagogy in teaching and learning process was believed to be effective in improving students’ speaking skill.

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