PROMOTING SKILL OF SPEAKING VIA TWO STAY TWO STRAY STRATEGY AMONG THE ENGLISH STUDENTS OF FKIP OF BENGKULU UNIVERSITY release_jyzbntadxzdnjelberucay6ija

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The study is aimed at describing the effectiveness of two stay and two stray in enhancing students' speaking ability. The paper is derived from the research result conducted among the 35 English department students of FKIP of University of Bengkulu. Classroom action research design with 3 cycles was applied to encourage students' speaking skill. Observation checklist, fieldnote and speaking test instruments were used to capture students' progress (reflection and evaluation). Observation was done to see how well the strategy was understood and implemented by the students. Fieldnote aimed at jotting down success and constraints of the strategy usage and tes instrument was administered to evaluate the grading and scoring development during the first, second and third cycles. Reflecting and evaluating were conducted at the end of every cycle. Based on observation and fieldnote that the students'participation were getting increased in every cycle. Besides, the average score and grade at the end of 3 cycles were getting improved. Mean score of cycle 1 was 59.00, cycle 2 was 65.00 and final cycle was 72.00. It can be concluded that two stay and two stray strategy boosted speaking ability for English department students of FKIP of Bengkulu University. 1. INTRODUCTION learning success is not only determined by intellectual ability of a person. There are many factors which are influential for an individual in studying a certain matter. Among all of those factors are facilities, times, media, motivators, teaching techniques and others. One of those factors is teaching strategy. Teaching strategy is one of a very important factors since appropriate way of teaching by considering about the characteristics of students and the fields of study can affect the level of the students' or college students' mastery in learning. According to Ahmadi and Prasetya (2005) a strategy may be defined as the teacher's effort in creating an environment system that probably teaching process happened. In other words, teachers are the main motivator (primary motivator) in the classroom. Students' activeness in the classroom is determined by the creativity of the teachers. Regarding to the level of learning mastery, Speaking for Discussion (Speaking) subject is one of the subjects in English education study program that is less mastery by college students in this study program. This speaking subject is taught starting from semester II. This subject is included into a conditional subject. Thus, level of students' mastery for this subject becomes one of the benchmarks in determine graduate students' of English education program quality. First, even if a student is good in writing English but he or she is not able to speak fluently, they will not well accepted in the workplace. Both of these skills, oral and written in English has become a very important concern in English education study program. This has been done in English education study program in which a student could write the thesis but could not speak English fluently; the student cannot be passed until she or he could speak English fluently. Considering about the importance of this speaking ability, the researcher who has taught since 1999 this subject has examined the ability of the third semester students are still not reaching 100% level of satisfaction. It can be seen from the number of semester that half students' level of mastery
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