IMPROVING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLSTUDENT’S SPEAKING SKILL USING ROLEPLAY STRATEGY

IMPROVING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLSTUDENT’S SPEAKING SKILL USING ROLEPLAY STRATEGY

BACKGROUND

In this globalization era,the role of English becomes more important in international comunnication, because it is used in many aspects of human activities such as social, economic, political, culture, education, and others. In Indonesia, English is taughtas a foreign language. By having English the students know how to operate computer, internet, and to know many kinds of  knowledge. That is one of the reasons that English is compulsory subject which students  have to study begining from elementary school up to university English more seriously and try to be able to speak it fluently. Students need to master the speaking skill because it is one of the four language skills. There are so many factors influence the speaking skill of the students. Some factors come from the teacher, some other come from the student itself. Many teachers find the difficulties how to attract student speak English naturally. Besides, almost of students in Senior High School are shy and afraid to speak. We try to offer the role play technique in teaching speaking. By using role play technique, we hope students can join the activity learning well. Role play can result in repetition of speaking activity by providing a change.In short, role play covers a wide range of possibilities because in this technique students have to enter into many different situations. Moreover, it can help students to achieve maximum communication.