The Implementation of Routine Conversation Technique to Improve Students' Speaking Ability in EFL Classroom

摘要

This study aims at investigating how the routine conversation technique (RCT) could improve the students speaking ability and also finding out the students' responses towards its implementation. The study was conducted at a State Senior High School in Cianjur, West Java, involving 30 students of XI Elective Class-5. It employed mixed methods design. For triangulation purpose and to answer the research questions, the data was collected through observation, interviews, and document analysis, taken from the result of speaking tests. The speaking pre-test and post-test was used to answer the students' speaking improvement. Additionally, to find out the students' responses, the observation and interviews were utilized. The RCT was implemented 3 times to deliver different interesting topics in the form of hortatory and narrative texts. The general result was the RCT could improve students' speaking ability significantly in EFL classroom. The students' responses to the use of the technique were also positive. Therefore, based on the findings, RCT is suggested to be applied as an alternative of the teaching technique to be implemented in the elective programs.