Improving Students Speaking Skill Through Project-based Learning

Absract: This research was conducted to the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Sintang in academic year 2015/2016. The aim of this research was to find out how well the use of Project-based learning in improving students' speaking skill. In conducting this research, the writer used Classroom Action Research as the method of research. The writer observed the improvement of students' speaking skill by collecting the data through observation and measurement technique. This research was implemented to 36 eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Sintang. The findings of this research showed that there was an improvement on students' speaking skill through project-based learning particularly in accuracy and fluency. In the first cycle, the students' mean score was 74.44. In the second cycle, the students' mean score was 78.06. Students' score in third cycle was 81.04. It can be concluded that the students' speaking skill taught using project-based learning was improved