Improvising Students' Speaking Skill on Procedure by Using Authentic Materials at Grade X.4 SMA Nurul Falah Pekanbaru

An improvement in speaking skill of the students in the class where the researcher is teaching, the researcher found that students had low ability in speaking skill. It was identified that there were several factors that caused students had low ability in speaking. The purpose of this research is to explain whether authentic materials improve the students’ speaking skill on procedure and to find out factors influence the changes of students; speaking skill on procedure. This classroom action research consisted of three cycles and three meetings of each cycle. In collecting the data, the researcher was helped by a collaborator. The researcher used speaking test, observation checklists, field notes, and interview. Based on the findings, it can be concluded the use of authentic materials could improve students’ speaking skill on procedure and the factors influenced the students’ speaking skill on procedure at grade X.4 of SMA Nurul Falah Pekanbaru. Finally, authentic materials improve the students; speaking skill on procedure at grade X.4 of SMA Nurul Falah Pekanbaru. The problem found in teaching and learning English at grade X.4 of SMA Nurul Falah Pekanbaru was the students’ speaking skill was still low. In this research, the researcher applied a teaching strategy by using authentic materials in procedure texts as a strategy to solve the problem. The purpose this research were improving students’ speaking skill by using authentic materials in procedure texts and explaining the factors caused of the improvement of students’ speaking skill by using authentic materials in procedure text. The classroom action research was conducted since the nature of the kind of research method is to improve the problem faced by the researcher as a teacher. From the three cycles of the research, it was found that by using authentic materials in procedure texts can improve students’ speaking skill that was increased from the average score 59,27 (fair) in cycles 1 to 62,30 (fair) average score in cycles 2 and 71,06 (good) average score in cycles 3.