Overcoming Students’ Difficulties in Retelling
Orally the Content of a
Conny Handayani
Everybody can speak in a simple daily conversation, but transferring
messages fluently isn't easy for everyone. According to Indonesian language
teachers at SMU I, a state college at
Subject
40 students of the 1st Grade Class
Aims
To overcome students' difficulties on retelling orally
reading texts.
To find interesting themes and the way of enriching
vocabularies.
CAR was done in 4 Cycles, consisted of Planning, Applying, Evaluating,
Analyzing, Reflecting followed by Observing and Revising after each cycle.
Data
Gathered by Tests, Questionnaires, Interviews, Observations, Teacher Documentations.
Result
There was an improvement of the Average Score of Reading Comprehension
and Speaking form the 1st to the Nth Cycle.
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Reading Comprehension: 64 -69 -74 -77
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Speaking: 60 -66 -78 -76
Conclusion
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Speaking Score depends on the Reading
Comprehension Score.
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Training to look for principal ideas, to resume
stories plot, to organise ideas logically helps
students in reconstructing stories.
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Dividing students in small groups
discussions improves the competences of the timid and students lacking
confidence.
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Handayani, C. (2005,
April). Overcoming
students’ difficulties in retelling orally the content of a reading text.
Paper presented at the RELC International Seminar,
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