Pendidikan
Volume 7 - Nomor 2, Juli 2020, (125-136)
Available online at http://ejournal.unmus.ac.id/index.php/magistra
Ranta Butarbutar
Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan– Universitas Musamus
e-mail: ranta@unmus.ac.id
Abstrak: Berbicara bahasa Inggris merupakan keterampilan yang harus dimiliki generasi muda dalam
revolusi industri 4.0 karena digunakan sebagai alat komunikasi dalam ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi.
Kemampuan berbicara siswa dapat ditingkatkan melalui berbagai media, seperti teks prosedural. Investigasi
penggunaan teks prosedural untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara adalah tujuan utama dari penelitian ini.
Untuk memperoleh data digunakan tes yang dilakukan pada pratindakan, sedangkan observasi digunakan pada
saat aksi. Terakhir, hasil penelitian tindakan ini ditunjukkan dengan peningkatan siswa dengan komponen
berbicara; kefasihan, diksi, intonasi, dan struktur kalimat atau tata bahasa yang digunakan. Selain itu, penelitian
ini membuktikan bahwa keterampilan lisan dapat meningkatkan keterampilan teks tertulis, sebaliknya
keterampilan lisan dan tulisan dapat diintegrasikan.
Kata Kunci: peningkatan; berbicara; teks prosedural.
Abstract: Speaking English is a skill that should be having of young generation in the revolution
industry 4.0 due to its uses as a communication tool in science and technology. Students’ ability in speaking can
improve through various media, such as procedural text. Investigating using procedural text to improve speaking
ability is the main objectives of this study. To acquire data, it used a test done in the pre-action, while observation
used during the whilst-action. Finally, this action research indicated students’ improving with the speaking
components; fluency, diction, intonation, sentence structure, or grammar. The study implies integrating oral and
written skills can teach simultaneously. Also, combining procedural text with technology is the recommendation
for the future study.
Keywords: improving; speaking; procedural text.
How to Cite: Butarbutar, R., & Sauhenda, A.F. (2020). Improving Students' Speaking Ability by Using Procedural Text.
Magistra; Jurnal Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, 7(2), 125-136.
whether we realize it or not, we can interact one alone is not strong enough to say so speaking is
to another by speaking or communication. We are essential need to express and can strengthen the
Comparatively, speaking is the activity to taught students still using classic or monotonous
produce information which is done by a human style; lecturing. The lecturing process flows as
being. It also can be done in two ways of usual lecturer comes to the classroom,
communication; to ourselves and others. crosschecks the attendance list, and allows
Additionally, speaking defines as an oral students to present. At the first meeting, the
interaction that aims to deliver a message or lecturer and students agreed with the lecturing
information. Furthermore, speaking also calls as contract, divided them into some groups, and
a skill rather than an ability as part of English gave each group topic. Furthermore, starting from
language skills. In line to be achieved speaking the second class meeting by student's group
skill needs more than regular practices. A person presentation, question and answer session, and
who recognized has speaking skill or competence the last one draw conclusion. This lecturing
identifies through fluency; clearly, the intended method occurs until the of the semester.
message can be comprehended by others. However, this method is not adequate to improve
Pertaining the definition, function, and the students' speaking ability, so this research comes
importance speaking, numerous students in to order another way, procedural text as a solution
English Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. intensively. 2) The limitations of the book as a
Correspondingly, speaking English needs learning tool. The availability of books as a
to be taught and developed at the students in the source of learning in this school is also a cause of
higher education such as Musamus University. In students' ability to speak less optimally. Students
case (Ngcobo, 2014); (Marca Wolfensberger, only come with notebooks and stationery, while
2015);(Bizerril et al., 2018); (Ambrósio et al., the teacher only owns textbooks. So, when the
2019); (Murotova et al., 2020); (Bruggeman et al., English teacher sometimes gets extra assignments
2021) declare communicative competence need and can't give class lessons, sometimes the
to develop in the college level. For this reason, teacher only gives assignments to do at home. But
students at the university as the front liner growth what adds to the problem is that they don't have
of education agents are expected to be a critical books to read at home, which adds to the
thinker, innovator, problem solver, and agent of increasingly complex issues. 3) Environment;
good changing. In order to have good There are two environments that affect student
communicative skills speaking ability is required. achievement, including the speaking ability. First
However, students' speaking ability at Musamus is the school environment, where they are getting
University is out of the expectation. Several material. The second is the family environment.
factors, such as 1) Conventional teaching Students as participants of this research come
methods. It is undeniable that some lecturers from various family background environment.
On the other hand, there is no one student who In accordance with (Harmer, 2008) states
comes from familiar using English at their family. teaching English for students can integrate four
Equally important, (Harmer, 2007) skills by paying attention of student’s
contributed that speaking action in the classroom characteristic in the classroom. Besides,
is the simulation or role-play. This study (Namaziandost et al., 2018) note that writing
investigated students' speaking with a simulation process can affect student’s speaking developing.
of procedural text given. In other words, written They add writing and speaking as skill need for
text to improve orally. On the contrary, previous communication to express meaning; writing for
research (Fisher & Frey, 2018) argue to develop written and speaking for oral. Pertaining to
students' oral communication by reading and correlation between speaking and writing as well,
writing skills. In the same fashion, (Ranta the study conducted procedural text as a
Butarbutar, 2019) declared that productive skill contextual media to improve student’s ability. For
such as reading could be effectively enhanced by this reason, procedural text can help them by
WhatsApp application in the digital era. construct procedure or stages to do something. In
Enormous method already conducted and addition, almost students as participants of the
proven by few researchers to improve student’s study have ever done something with following
speaking ability such as (Al-Sobhi & Preece, its procedures. As such, for daily routine for
2018); (Namaziandost et al., 2018); (Rao, 2019); preparing breakfast, making tea or operating
(Diyora & Diloza, 2020). They clarify that television. Apparently, while students are
student’s speaking ability in the classroom is preparing procedures in doing something
crucial to develop by using various media i.e. simultaneously they force to speak out. In other
video, flashcards, storytelling, and integrating words, procedural text can activate encouraging
with technology. However, the the study aiming to speak up.
offers oral and written come together in the real However, teacher educators in the
classroom. classroom have a little bit recognizing that
This study's specific purpose is to procedural text effective use to encourage and
improve students' ability to speak English by improve speaking ability. In case the study
using procedural text media that are packaged in suggests procedural text as a structured way to
the form of flashcards. This research is very build-up communicative skills. Another prior
urgent to be implemented immediately because in study confirmed by (Ur, 1996) a conventional
the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 such as the strategy; student-centered learning sometimes
current ability to communicate in English is can accommodate large opportunities for drilling
needed to compete in the international area. speaking. She adds important thing to be
remember to help encourage student speaking is First, researcher provided short procedural
relevant topics, interesting, and authentic picture namely how to make a cup of coffee.
materials. As a consequence, procedural text Therefore, researcher have participants to explain
provides chance student to simulate of how to based on the picture. Second, participants asked
make and how to operate something have been for preparing procedural text entitled favorite
prepared before (Aleksandrzak, 2011) and food and drinks. Third, in this stage participants
(Malicka et al., 2019). asked for preparing procedural text entitled
student’s local culture. Students feel free to
METHOD
choose a topic refers to their local culture. And
This study aims to improve student's forth, participants asked for preparing procedural
speaking ability and conducted in two cycles. text entitled how to operate something such as
While working on procedural text to improve, mobile application. Sum up, all data gathered
students' speaking needs analysis to reflect the analyzed with descriptively, drawn conclusion
actions planned and then revised in the next cycle. and displayed by chart.
naturally occurred while they tried to speak up As has been noted, table 1 shows strongly enough
their chosen subject by doing this principle. As a to begin from draws pre-action to post-action;
matter of fact, in the first meeting or called pre- there was an increase in students' results in each
action, five students categorized into good diction speaking element. Firstly, they given the
and pronunciation, ten students categorized into opportunity to choose a free topic based on their
good intonation. interests. It was aiming to see their speaking
Similarly, newest study (Octaberlina & ability purely without any media. Furthermore,
Asrifan, 2021) confirm that students can develop their ability showed increasingly due to the media
speaking ability empowered by many interesting shown; procedural delivered. In the Whilst-
things such as humor. By reading humor text Activity, they have given various procedures to
student motivated, inspired, and have more make something randomly, the result show; three
encourages to speak (Parmawati, 2018); (Ehsan et students fluency explained with using diction
al., 2019); (Amiryousefi, 2019); (Yang et al., well. In light of (Harmer, 2007) emphasized in
2020); (Peterson et al., 2021). All in all, previous teaching speaking skill in the classroom can be
study assert speaking ability can be encouraged playing role or simulation. This simulation means
and motivated of students’ interesting in doing. they explained steps or procedures to refer to the
Based on their experience, student also foster text provided. Similarly, (Hinkel, 2018) noted
learning independently, boost self-esteem, and developing students' English by integrated skills;
self-learning awareness. reading and speaking. Besides, whilst doing the
More detailed can be drawn following table: action, ten students categorized into average level
with diction and intonation element. Data proved perspective, they knew how to make it but got a
that they had difficulties. problem to share due to vocabulary limitation.
Improving Speaking ability using Procedural Three of them got a problem with the
text ‘pronunciation’ element such as, “pour”, should
How is it implementing? Procedural text [pôr], “put” should [po͝ot], detailed as shows as
is a kind of text that informs procedures, steps, or the following figure:
how to make something. This study delivered Figure 1. Student’s speaking progress
three types of a procedural text. First, procedure
text close to daily routine; how to make coffee. In
Improving Speaking
this action, students showed a picture of a cup of
coffee. This picture aimed to stimuli their
cognitive for memorizing and reasoning what the
steps to make it while they were doing or even
their mother at home. Accordingly, the speaking
ability can improve by giving clues or instruction
closed to the student’s personality, natural thing,
and objectives as confirmed by (Kaniadewi et al.,
2017). Second, whilst the action, students, 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Although it may be true, students used bilingual In line with the theory (Chuming et al.,
while they had limited vocabulary to express 2000); (Usó Juan & Martínez Flor, 2008);
ideas. Third, procedural text about student’s (Harmer, 2008); (Swain, 2011); (Weshah &
Coupled with Post-Activity, student’ that in order to get better communicative ability
speaking ability gradually increased by reporting can be starting from writing text firstly. Based on
procedures to make something. For instance, in their result finding that train student to improve
the first action, the researcher has participants writing kinds of text is significant to improve
speak up “how to make a cup of coffee”. In their their speaking and vice versa.
Another study come from (Brandl, 2008); or finally. The speaking ability is seen more
(Lasagabaster, 2008); (Anekjumnongporn, 2021) interesting and challenging. In other words,
asserts that by integrating reading, writing procedural text can be used by teacher as
mediated video can develop communication speaking strategy. Interestingly procedural text is
ability. Hence, the study conducted procedural more attract student’s attention whether integrate
text for written communication device. Also, time with digital technology, allows auto-learning
used for explaining procedure sequences (Usó Juan & Martínez Flor, 2008); (Razmjoo &
apparently speaking ability constructs Ghasemi, 2011); (Pawlak, 2018); (Vihalemm et
simultaneously. Afterward, the study notes al., 2019); (Hadley et al., 2020); (Fagan et al.,
participants’ pronunciation raises significantly in 2021); (Hadi et al., 2021). They agree teacher
post-action session (figure 1) due to preparing it educators can apply various strategies to mediate
in written text previously. Gradually followed of student’s speaking ability from modest way up to
speaking elements; sentences structure, more complex method. Shortly, the study
intonation, and diction. In other words, speaking declares get better as written text at the same time
ability can encourage by what they had read. get better speaking ability, but the more exercise
Similarly, (Wamnebo et al., 2018) assert is needed. In advanced, procedural text is
speaking ability can support by descriptive text. effective to produce words and sentences in the
Descriptive text allows student to describe many target language (Ur, 1996); (Aleksandrzak,
things orally, and at that same time their speaking 2011); (Harmer, 2007); (Harmer, 2007); (Malicka
is challenging. Sum up, written text both et al., 2019).
descriptive and procedural text come together
CONCLUSION
help student ability orally. Supporting students
Finally, this research confirms that
develop their speaking ability beside using
written procedural text can improve speaking
procedural text manually also can be mediated
ability orally. Some empirically proven simply
technology video as initial study was conducted
procedural text chosen is the text related to
by (Kaniadewi et al., 2017).
students' prior experience, favorites, or traditional
In order to get better speaking elements
food and drink. Indeed, procedural text using
such as, pronunciation, intonation, diction, and
simple present tense that period is not too difficult
sentence structure can improve stage by stage as
for them. Previously, (Kaniadewi et al., 2017)
preparing its sequences as well. Moreover, the
investigate speaking student ability can improve
way of speaking is easier and more adequately
by reporting procedural text. Their experiment
whilst student emphasizes instructional ordering
emphasized when students saying steps or
numbers or sequences i.e. first, second, third, etc.,
making something, at that same time, speaking order to get better speaking ability, procedural
ability is encouraged simultaneously. text mediated by various technologies is a
The procedural texts chosen and used in recommendation for future study.
this study emphasized procedural text improved
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
student-written ability and orally. This study
My deepest gratitude addressed to the
implied that as an educator or everyone who
Rector and Head of LP2M University of
wants to improve speaking ability, not always
Musamus for their guidance and available
using the newest technology rather than simply,
suggestions. This project was fund by the
contextual, and locally. As a previous academic
Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher
(R Butarbutar et al., 2019) message to improve
Education, Republic of Indonesia, 2020
students' English interest, enrich vocabulary, and
(KEMRISTEKDIKTI).
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