A. Backgroud of The Research
A. Backgroud of The Research
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Backgroud of the Research
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D. Significances of Research
This research is about finding a new technique called "Elicitation
Technique" that will be applied in teaching speaking especially for Junior
High School level. The finding of this researcher hopefully has significant
in the education realm. The significances of this research are following:
1) Theoretical Significance
The finding of the study is expected to add beneficial theory and
give a better understanding of the use of elicitation technique in teaching
English speaking in the classroom context.
2) Practical Significances
The result of this research, the researcher expects to give the useful
information and positive contribution related to the process of teaching
and learning English especially for teachers, the students, school and the
other researchers.
a. For the teacher
This study expected could help teachers alike to create an
interesting and active learning process in order to improve students’
speaking skill aspect by utilizing Elicitation as technique in teaching.
b. For the Students
Hopefully, the implementation of Elicitation Technique can make
the students interested in the teaching and learning process, Students
can be help in being confident and understand the lesson in their mind
so that they will study harder and master the speaking skill well.
c. For the School
The result of the study will give information and knowledge about
an alternative teaching technique that can be used for developing the
students’ achievement in speaking.
d. For The Other Researcher
The finding of this research can be useful for further research
where the other researchers can do more and avoid the threats that can
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make the research far from the expectation. It will give more
understanding about the use of Elicitation Technique.
E. Scope of research
The scope of the research basically means all those things that will
be covered in the research project, and here the researcher will define
clearly about the variables such the independent variable and the
dependent variable also the researcher will give the explanation of the
other scope of research it is called research methodology.
1. Research Variable
Variable is a term frequently used in research which is defined and
identify while designing a research project. According to Kerlinger
(1983: 42) variable is a property that takes on a different value.
Variables can define in terms of measurable actors through a process.
There are two variables involved in this research. The variables
consist of:
a. Independent Variable
An independent variable is a variable that has a contribution to
influence the dependent variable. According to Creswell
(2012:116), “an independent variable is an attributor characteristic
that influences or take effect of the outcome or the dependent
variable”. Independent variable is the antecedent while the
dependent variable is the consequent. In this research, the
independent variable of this research is the use of Elicitation
technique in teaching speaking.
b. Dependent Variable
Dependent variables are those that depend on the independent
variable they are the outcomes or result of the influence of the
independent variables Creswell (2009:50). The dependent variable
is choosing by the researcher to find out to see the dependent
variable will changes or not by the influenced of the independent
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F. Research Hypothesis
The hypothesis is a conjectural statement of the relation between
two or more variables and the hypothesis also can be defined as a
formal statement of the relation between two or more variables
(Creswell, 2012). A research question is essentially a hypothesis asked
in the form of a question and here the hypothesis will be divided into
two, are the following:
1. Alternative Hypothesis (Ha)
An alternative hypothesis will be taken or acceptable if the
Elicitation Technique is effective toward students’ achievement in
speaking skill of the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 13
Pontianak in the academic year of 2019/2020.
2. Null Hypothesis (H0)
Null Hypothesis will explain that Elicitation Technique is not
effective toward students’ achievement in speaking skill of the
eight grade students of SMP Negeri 13 Pontianak in the academic
year of 2019/2020.
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CHAPTER II
TEACHING SPEAKING USING ELICITATION TECHNIQUE
A. The Nature of Speaking
1. Definition of Speaking
Speaking is an instance of reciprocal in which both reception and
productive participation. Speaking also refer to the realization of language
as use in spoken interaction and visual media since it is an activity which
makes a good use of gesture, and facial expression (Luoma, 2004: 2).
Other perception comes from Mc Donough and Shaw (2003: 44),
speaking is a productive skill consisting of verbal utterance production
derives attention both in first and second language, the purpose is to share
idea or meaning. This may involve expressing ideas and opinions;
expressing a wish or a desire to do something negotiating and/or solving
particular problem; or establishing and maintaining social relationship and
friendship.
Someone can speak a language it means that he can carry on a
conversation reasonably complete Brown (2001:267). In addition, the
benchmark of the successful acquisition of a language is almost always the
demonstration of an ability to accomplish pragmatic goals through an
interactive discourse with other language speakers. Richards and
Renandya (2002:204) state that effective oral communication requires the
ability to use the language appropriately in social interactions that involve
not only verbal communication but also paralinguistic elements of speech
such as pitch, stress, and intonation. Because Indonesian students are EFL
students, acquisition of the English language is really important to achieve
a good speaking skill.
Speaking is the most difficult aspect for the student to master. Mostly
students got confused to consider everything that is involved in a speaking
activity such as an idea, what to say, language, how to use grammar and
vocabulary, pronunciation as well as listening to and reacting to the person
who they are communicating with (Pollard: 2008:33). As a student who
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a. Make sure the class can hear both the question and the answer. It
isimportant that everyone can hear answers given by other student.
b. Use a natural sounding. Questions sound more inviting if it sounds
like you really search for the answer.
c. Consider a wait-time where it allows students to think, don’t hurry
them and don’t answer your own question.
d. Questions can be nominated. Ask the questions by calling out their
name one by one. If a student cannot provide the answer, ask to
another one.
2. Advantages and Disdvantages of Elicitation
a. Advantages
According to Case (2009: 154), there are several advantages of
elicitation techniques. Firstly, elicitation keeps the students alert. Even
the best students will think carefully if there is someone in front of the
class talking, especially if what is said is in a foreign language. If they
contribute to the lesson or at least know that they can be called at any
time, so they have to prepare themselves.
Secondly, elicitation helps the teacher realizes if the students are
listening and understanding or not. If the teacher says “I was born in
1998”. There is no sign of knowing if the students have understood
what the teacher said or not. Then, the teacher asks “When I was
born?” instead; a lack of an answer makes it likely that they are not
listening or are not following the teacher. If that answer has only come
from one person, the teacher will need to make sure everyone else has
understood as well with concept checking questions or further
elicitation of example sentences.
Thirdly, elicitation helps the teacher find out what the students
already know. By starting with easy questions and working in more
difficult ways, the teacher will be able to increase their confidence
with the first and be aware of the limits of their knowledge once their
answers begin to become incomplete or wrong. Find out what the
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students do and not knowing will also help the teacher spend lesson
time on the most important things, and help the teacher plan the future
lessons by thinking about them.
Lastly, elicitation helps the students learn how to guess.
Communicating in real time is a continuous process of guessing to
predict what people will say, trying to exercise their attitudes with their
tone of voice and body language. Many students do not have this skill
or are shy to use it in the foreign language classrooms, and getting
them used to guessing answers to almost everything the teacher says
by asking questions can really help.
There are many advantages of elicitation in the second language
classroom, they are:
a. It makes students more attentive to the topic being presented by the
lecturers.
b. It helps the lecturers to find out how well they apply language
structure, vocabulary, and appropriate pronunciation in speaking.
c. It maximises speaking opportunities.
d. It is to check students’ understanding.
b. Disadvantages
However, if overused, some advantages of elicitation may be lost.
Here are possible disadvantages of eliciting in language classroom
based on Case (2009: 158):
1) Eliciting can just be a wasting-time procedure.
2) An active student can dominate the class to answer all of
elicitation.
3) If they don’t have any idea, elicitation can be met by silence.
4) Eliciting will make boring when they get repetitive questions.
In addition, according to Darn (2010: 57) elicitation can be done
effectively by following the some suggestions below:
a. Don’t ask students to repeat the incorrect answer, but ask different
students to repeat the correct one. This helps them remember.
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3) Elicit: agree
Elicit: agree is functioned to ask for students’ agreement
towards teacher’s assumption which is self-evidently true. It
can be applied by using tag question.
4) Elicit: repeat
This category prospects a repetition of the utterance
proceeding elicitation. It invites students to repeat their
responses because the teacher has not heard it clearly. It is
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Design
This research was a pre-experimental design using a quantitative
approach with One-Group Pretest-Posttest design. In this research, the
experimental research has done by took a class by using cluster
random sampling. According to Ary, et al (2010), there are three kind
of pre-experimental research called one-shot case study, pretest and
posttest group and static group comparison. In pretest and posttest
group the observation done two times, those are: before experiment
call pretest and after experiment call posttest.
Table 3.1 one group pretest and posttest
O1 X O2
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There are some procedure that have been done by the researcher while
conducted this research. The procedures are following:
1) Administration
The first procedure for doing a research is the researcher
asked for permission to the headmaster of SMP Negeri 13
Pontianak before doing a research. While asking the permission
the researcher also explain that the researcher wanted to do a
research in the school.
2) Pretest
After gaining the permission and talk to the English
teacher, the researcher entered a classroom to face the students,
as the second procedure, giving the student pretest is not
directly after the researcher have the permission, but after
decided the time and schedule with the English teacher at the
VII class of SMP Negeri 13 Pontianak. Pretest was given by
the researcher at 20th December 2019 after the researcher
explained what the purpose of the test.
3) Giving Treatment
As the third step on the procedure giving the treatment was
an important part. Here, the researcher was implemented a
technique called “elicitation” in the VII B as the sample of this
research at 6th January 2020. There are thirty students in the
VII B class.
4) Posttest
Posttest has been done by the researcher in order to take the
data. Posttest has been done after the researcher implemented
the treatment at 14th January 2020. The researcher take the
score of posttest after all the treatment has done, and all of the
sample already take a role in learning speaking using elicitation
technique.
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M 1=
∑O1
N
Where:
M1 = Mean of pretest
∑ O 1 = the sum of pretest
N = Number of Students
M 2=
∑ O2
N
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Where:
M2 = Mean of posttest
∑ O 2 = the sum of posttest
N = Number of Students
(Taken from Dornyei, 2007:115)
c. Analysis of the Students' Standard Deviation
In this research, the standard deviation was used to measure
of dispersion of a set of data from the students' mean score. Here,
the researcher measured the absolute variability of the students'
mean scores. To analyze the students' standard deviation, the
researcher used a formula below:
2
S=
√ ∑X 2
−¿
N−1
(∑ X )
N
¿
Where:
S = Standard deviation
∑X 2
= Sum of the squares of students’ individual score
2
(∑ X ) = Sum of the scores squared
N = Number of sample
d. The Normality Test
To assign if the data is distributed as a normal distribution
or not, the researcher needs to compute the normality of the test. In
order to know the data distribution, the researcher used the
Kolgomorov-Smirnov test available in SPSS 16. The data was
taken by the researcher by using this formula below:
w
p=
s
(Taken from Irwin and Davis 1980: 61)
Where:
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6. ( d 2 )
I =1−
n . ( n2−1 )
Taken by Cohen 1960 (20: 37–46)
Which :
I : Inter-rater
d1 : Difference between Researcher and Teacher Mean
Score
d2 : Square of d1
n : Number of Students as the Sample
g. Analysis of the Hypothesis
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√
( D)
∑ D − ∑N
2
N (N−1)
Where:
tcount = Total value of t-test
D́ = Mean of differences pretest and posttest
ƩD2 = Total of quadrate deviation
ƩD = Sum of deviation
N = Number of sample
(Taken from Ary et al, 2010: 177)
Finally, to answer the first question, whether elicitation technique
is effective or not, the researcher will use t table as the comparison of
the tcount. There are two probabilities for the result, after compare
the tcount with t-table. If tcount higher than ttable of 5% alpha level
(0.05) it means that the difference students' speaking skill before
and after using elicitation technique is significant. So Ha is
acceptable and H0 is rejected. On the other hand, if t-count is lower
than t-table, the researcher will take the conclusion that using
elicitation technique is not effective in teaching speaking skill or H 0
is acceptable and Ha is rejected.
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Where:
ES = Effect Size
M1 Pretest = the students’ mean score of posttest
M2 Posttest = the students’ mean score of pretest
SDweighted = the average standard deviation of both test
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CHAPTER IV
RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
A. Research Findings
1. The Analysis of Data Pre-Test
The data was collected from VII B class as the sample. The pre-test
is done by the researcher before implementing elicitation as a
technique in teaching speaking.
Pre-test was conducted on 6th January 2020. The pre-test was
given in the first meeting. The pre-test was conducted to determine the
students' English speaking skills before the researcher implement the
treatments. The topic was narrative text. In the pre-test season, the
researcher asked the student to make some sentences of date, month,
and year and spoke in front of the classroom orally. The scoring rubric
of the students' speaking skill was adapted from Brown (2001). There
are four aspects with five levels to score the students' pre-test scores.
There are fluency, accuracy, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
The mean score is the total score divided by the total number of
the sample. Based on the finding of the students' pretest score, can be
explained that the students' mean score in pre-test was 57.60. The
score of the mean of the students' mean score of the four aspects can
explain as accuracy (16.5), fluency (15.5), pronunciation (14.8) and
vocabulary (12.3). The lowest score of the students' pretest was on the
vocabulary aspect and the highest score was on fluency aspect.
2. The Analysis of Data Post-Test
The post-test was done by the researcher after the researcher
implementing elicitation as a technique in teaching speaking skill.
Post-test was conducted on 14th January 2020. The post-test was given
in the last meeting. The post-test was conducted to take data of the
students' English speaking skill after the students got the treatments by
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using oral test and the topic was narrative text. On the post-test, the
researcher asked the student to make some sentences based on their
own experience and spoke in front of the classroom orally. The scoring
of the students' speaking skill was adapted from Brown (2001).
The mean score of the post-test will use as the hint either
elicitation has a significant effect or not. The finding shows that the
students' mean score was 59.80. The students' posttest scores of the
four skills are explained as fluency (16.5), accuracy (15.8),
pronunciation (15.5) and vocabulary (13.0). Based on the finding, the
lowest score of the students' speaking achievement was vocabulary and
the highest score was fluency.
3. Analysis of the Students’ Standard Deviation
Students' standard deviation is the measure of the dispersion of
data from the students' mean score of the pretest and the posttest.
Before the researcher has measured the pretest and posttest of all the
thirty students of the ninth grade student with the range of the score
zero to a hundred (0-100). The data will show as the figure below:
Based on table 4.1 above, students' mean score in pretest was 57.66
students'standard deviation on pretest was 9.1, and students' mean
score in posttest was 59.83 while the students' standard deviation in
posttest was 8.0. Based on the data above, the students' score was
increased from pretest (57.66) to posttest (59.83) and the standard
deviation or the dispersion of the students' score in posttest was
decreased from pretest (9.16) to posttest (8.03).
4. Normality Test
Normality test used to assign if the data was distributed as a normal
distribution or not, the researcher needs to compute the normality of
the test. The normality test of this research showed on this table below:
Table 4.2 Normality Test
Pretest Posttest
N 30 30
Normal Parametersa Mean 57.67 59.83
Std. Deviation 9.166 8.039
Most Extreme Absolute .121 .206
Positive .114 .103
Differences
Negative -.121 -.206
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z .665 1.131
Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .768
.155
The test was used because the p−value bigger than α−value
(0.05). Based on the value above, the p value in pretest was 0.768 and
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59.8−57.6
ES =
8.613735
= 0.25
CHAPTER V
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than one times. Moreover if the student never use, even never
know the elicitation technique before.
b. Elicitation is a suitable technique to make students more creative.
c. The teacher must be careful in set the time allocation. For the
students learning with using elicitation make they active and
forget how long they spend the time.
In applying group discussion, there are some suggestions that can be
applied:
a. Group discussion is the method that makes the students have to be
active to talk more. The teacher has to make the student remember
about the purpose of this method, so the students can discuss the topic
and use the time effectively.
b. The teacher must be careful in set the time allocation to make the
implementation of discussion method is success.
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