Improving students’ speaking ability through inside-outside circle model at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

This research is done to solve the students’ problems in speaking ability. The purposes of this research are: to describe the students’ speaking ability through inside-outside circle model at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan and to identify the factors which influence students’ speaking ability through inside-outside circle model at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Research methodology that usedin this research is classroom action research by implementing the Hopkins design which consists of four steps. Those are planning, action, observation, and reflecting. To solve the students’ problems in speaking the researcher appliesinterview inside-outside circle model. The researcher uses two cycles, every cycle consists of three meetings. Moreover, the participants of this research are the class of VIII-b (26 students) and there is collaboration with an English teacher. Meanwhile, the data is derived among from speaking tests, observation, and interview. . Based on the research result showed the improvement mean score of the students in first test in the first cycle 1 is 57.68 (7.69%) and students’ score in cycle 2 is 18.80 (69.23%). From the students’ mean score in background of the problem and in cycle 1, it doesn’t show improvement. Then, the researcher continuous to cycle 2. Based on the research resultin cycle 1 and cycle 2, it shows the improvement of students’ mean score and students’ percentage. So, students’ improvement in speaking ability by using inside-outside circle model is very good category (very high). Students’ problem in accent is difficult in pronouncing the words. Problems in grammar are difficult in building sentence and using auxiliary verb.Problem in vocabulary is difficult in searching adequate words.Problem in fluency is difficult in grouping words. Problem in comprehension is difficult in understanding words