Firdaus, Firdaus and Femi, Earnestly
THE USE OF ORAL REPORT ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE NURSING STUDENT’S
SPEAKING ABILITY: A CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH AT STIKES
MERCUBAKTIJAYA PADANG.
Repository STIKes MERCUBAKTIJAYA Padang.
Abstract
The earlier study of the research found that the main problem in the classroom were the students unable to produce the appropriate words to the meaning intended because of vocabulary lacking, understanding of English language structure, wrong pronouncing, shy to speech due to
of fluency problem, and minimum idea or topic understanding. To solve the problem, oral report activities conducted in this research as the way to increase the student’s comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and fluency aspects. The purpose of this research was to
improve students’ speaking ability Nursing Department of STIKes Mercubaktijaya at second year through oral report activities.
The research was done through classroom action research. Four meetings in each cycle from two cycles were implemented. The procedures were planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting.
The speaking test result from each cycle became data obtained. The result showed that the pre-test mean score was 1.96. In Cycle I, the mean score was 2.75 and in cycle II the score was 3.91. In speaking aspects, the improvements were comprehension 2.02, pronunciation 1.89, grammar 1.91, fluency 2.03, and vocabulary 1.95.
The result of the research describes that implementation of oral report activities can improve the students’ speaking ability at STIKES Mercubaktijaya Padang.
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