This study is focused on speaking. Speaking is important to be learnt because it is the way to communicate with other people, but in fact the students’ ability in speaking is low. It is caused by students’ limitation in mastering the aspects of speaking such as vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and fluency. In this research, the researcher used inside-outside circle technique to improve students’ speaking skill. The objectives of this study are: (1) To implement inside-outside circle technique to improve students’ speaking skill. (2) To describe students’ engagement in speaking class activities using inside-outside circle technique. (3) To identify how much students’ speaking skill improvement after being taught using inside-outside circle technique.
This study is a classroom action research that was done in two cycles. The data collection was done using documentation, observation, and test. The data from the observation that had been taken from every cycle was analyzed descriptively while the data from test was analyzed quantitatively.
The implementation of inside-outside circle technique in teaching speaking at 11 grade of SMA Negeri 1 Bandar Batang was conducted in two cycles including cycle one and cycle two. The participant of this study was 35 students in class XIth IPS 2. The result of this study showed that using inside-outside circle technique can improve students’ speaking skill. This is proved by students’ test score that improved in every cycle. In the first cycle, the students’ average score was 70.46 and in the second cycle students got 77.82.
The result of this study is expected to become the information for teacher of English in teaching speaking.