Improving Students’ Speaking Skill through Drama Technique at the First Year Students Class C of the English Department of Adab Faculty of Imam Bonjol State Institute for Islamic Studies of Padang.

There were some problems faced by the first year students of the English Dept. of Adab Faculty State Institute for Islamic Studies in speaking English. The first is lack of vocabulary. Students will be restricted to express their idea and then the will use code mixing. Secondly, students can not speak fluently because the student do translation in the time they produce English, so the effect is they take a longer time to speak and their language adopt Bahasa Indonesia grammar. Grammar is the next problem, which sometimes makes students afraid to speak. In other case, students also have low comprehension about what teachers say that reflected from students’ responses. To solve those problems, the researcher conducted a classroom action research by implementing drama technique which consisted of three types; mime activities, scripted play and unscripted play. Each of type took four meetings of each which had three main phases; introduction, practicing and production. This research found that students’ speaking score increased for each indicator. The classroom mean score from cycle to cycle increased from 61 to 66,39. Observation by using field note and interview also show that almost all students enjoyed the class atmosphere and students were motivated by the classroom management. Drama technique improves students’ speaking skill which was indicated by the increasing of their speaking test, result of observation and interview. This result of research hopefully could be as significant input for students’ achievement and English teachers in English Dept. of Adab Faculty and other researchers to teach and to conduct the research related to teaching speaking.