This research is based on the students’ difficulties in oral proficiency to express sympathy and feeling. To improve teaching oral proficiency, teacher must have an appropriate technique in teaching speaking to help students feel easy in speaking class. Skit as a Reader’s Theatre Variation aims to help students’ oral proficiency easily and improve their oral proficiency.
The purposes of this research are: (1) to describe the implementation of Skits as a Reader’s Theatre Variation to improve English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ oral proficiency in expressing sympathy and feeling, (2) to prove Skits as a Reader’s Theatre Variation can improve English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ oral proficiency in expressing sympathy and feeling, (3) to know the improvement of Skits as a Reader’s Theatre Variation to improve English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ oral proficiency in expressing sympathy and feeling.
This classroom action research was done in two cycles with three activities including pre-cycle. pre-cycle was 12. In cycle 1 showed 13. In cycle 2 increased to be 17. The result of the research showed that there was a significantly different students’ achievement in every cycle. It can be recommended that there was improvement in students’ oral proficiency to express sympathy and feeling after using Skits as a Reader’s Theatre Variation.