The Using of Role Play to Improve Students Speaking Ability : A Classroom Action Research at Student Grade X of MAN 19, Jakarta

Many students are really passive and reluctant to speak English in the classroom. Therefore, this research is aimed in knowing whether students� speaking skill could be improved by using role play and also to know how the implementation of the technique increasing students ability in speaking English. This research was accomplished in the second semester of MAN 19 Jakarta in which consisted of 27 students as respondent A Classroom Action Research (CAR) is used as the research method in this study in overcoming students� problem of learning English especially speaking skill. Kurt Lewin design is used in this research, which consists of four phases; planning, acting, observing, and reflecting per cycle. In sustaining the research result, two types of data are collected; qualitative data that derived from observation and interview toward the students and the teacher as well. On the other hand, the quantitative data that derived from the test result; pre-test and post test result. Then, those data analyzed by the researcher by using descriptive analysis and statistical analysis to know the final result of the implementation role play toward students English language learning in the Classroom Action Research (CAR). The finding of this study indicated that the implementation of role play technique was successful since the criteria of success were achieved. It is proven by data�s that was derived from this study. First, from the interview result showed the students were more motivated and interested in learning English. Second, from the test result which consists of three tests; pre-test, posttest of the first cycle and posttest of the second cycle. There were 81.48 % students have passed the KKM (70); 22.22 % were obtained from the first cycle and 59.26 % were obtained from the second cycle. Based on those result, there were 22 of 27 students passed the KKM, and it means this action research is successful