Improving Students Speaking Ability in Class Through the Role Play Technique

This research is designed as a research on improving students speaking ability in class to the second semester of the seventh grade class A students of SMP Negeri 3 Meliau in academic year 2012-2013. In this research the researcher used Role play as technique in teaching speaking. The method of this research is called A Classroom Action Research. The subject of this research was seventh grade class A students of SMP Negeri 3 Meliau in academic year 2012-2013 consist of 38 students. The data of this research were collected by using measurement technique that was a performance test to measure students achievements. The findings of this classroom action research showed that speaking ability in class increases by using Role play technique. Based on data analysis the mean score of the students on the first cycle is 57.24 that qualified poor to average, and the mean score of the students on the second cycle is 66.18 that is qualified average to good. It means that action hypothesis the using Role play technique to improve students speaking ability in class is proved