The Use of Role Play in Teaching Speaking

This research purpose is to investigate the effect size of the use of role play in teaching speaking at the eighth grade students in SMPN 12 Pontianak. The total number of sample in this study was 34 students. The method that is used in this research is pre-experimental method that applies pre-test and post-test to measure the effect (ES) size of the treatment. The instruments of this research are pre-test and post-test. Pre-test is applied before the treatment is given. Meanwhile post-test is applied after the treatment given. The different score of pre-test and post-test are respectively 50.58 and 64.41. The result show that the effect size of the use of role play in teaching is high because the Effect Size (ES) is > 0.5. Based on the mentioned results above, it can be concluded that teaching students to speak in English through role play was successful to be implemented. In other words, role play technique helped the teacher to teach her students to speak in English and encourage students to speak up in the classroom