Using Reader’s Theatre Strategy in Learning English Poetry: How Effective it Could be?

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether using Reader’s Theatre starategy could improve students’ comprehension level or not and exore students’ perception about the imlementation of Reader’s Theatre in learning English poetry. A total of eight participants from the same program in Kolej University Islam Perlis (KUIPs), Perlis were involved in the research. This study used Embedded Mixed Method in which preexperimental research was conducted in the quantitative stage of data collection, where the quantitative data were gained from students’ pre-test and posttest. Meanwhile the qulitative data were gained from the interview conducted at the end of experimental study. The data collected from the results of students’ pretest and posttest were analyzed by using paired samle T-Test, while thematic analysis was used to analyse the responses from interviews. The results of the analysis showed that 1) Reader’s Theatre strategy was able to enhance students’ comprehension level and 2) students showed positive perception that the learning activities with the implementation of Reader’s Theatre strategy brought three benefits; first, the activity was interesting and enjoyable, secondly, the activity made it easy to comprehend English literatures and thirdly, the activity made students work collaborativey in groups.

Developing Student’s Oral and Reading Skills Through Reader’s Theatre

The ability to speak well in English has always been a challenging task among students from the rural areas. There are various types of materials that have been developed to improve student’s fluency to speak English, and Reader’s Theatre (RT) is one of them. A study was conducted using Readers Theatre to help students improve their oral and reading skills in English in a stress free workshop. The workshop was a combination of language and arts activities that combined language skills of speaking and reading to improve students’ performance. The workshop was conducted among students over a period of three weeks. A survey was carried out on the student’s perceived learning experience to speak and read English whilst taking part in Reader’s Theatre. The findings of the study show that Reader’s Theatre was a good tool to boost high school students’ motivation to speak clearly and confidently in English when they collaborated and interacted with their peers. However, it was not the aim of the present study to check if students spoke or read more English materials outside classroom as a result of Reader’s Theatre workshop.

TEACHING SPEAKING WITH READER’S THEATRE

The study aims to investigate the implementation of the technique of Reader’s Theatre in the teaching learning process of speaking class at STKIP PGRI Jombang specially at subject of Speaking for Daily Communication. Since The objective of Speaking class is to improve and develop student’s speaking skill fluently, correctly and accurately, the technique of Reader’s Theatre is offered to help students to speak English very well. Students can speak with correct vocabulary, proper pronunciation and good grammar. The subject of the research is students of English department 2017 A and B. The research method isconducted by describing all activities on speaking for daily communication by using Reader’s Theatre. To collect the data, the researcher uses the instrument by observing the condition of the class during the technique of reader’s theatre applied. The result of the research states that Reader’s Theatre can give a possitive activity to students involved in Speaking class. Students can have a good response toward the Reader’s Theatre technique. Key words: Reader’s theatre, Speaking class

META- ANALYSIS OF THE USE MOVIE TRAILER IN EFL CLASSROOMTHE EFFECT OF THE READER’S THEATER TECHNIQUE ON THE ENGLISH STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT AT STKIP PGRI JOMBANG

The objective of speaking class is to improve and develop students’ speaking skill to be fluent, correct and accurate. One of techniques applied on that speaking class is Reader’s Theatre. Reader’s theatre can encourage students to speak English fluently with correct vocabulary, pronounce words well and speak with a good structure. This study aims to know the effectiveness from reader’s theatre toward students’ speaking skill at STKIP PGRI Jombang. The population of this study is all students of 2017 English department while the samples are 2017 A students and 2017 B students. The research design applies quasi experiment with a test as the instrument and calculate the data with ANCOVA. It shows that the significant value is 0,003, it is lower than the significant level 0,05. The result of the study shows that there is a significant effect to reader’s theatre on students’ speaking skill at STKIP PGRI Jombang and reader’s theatre can give a good result on students’ speaking skill.

READING FLUENCY THROUGH READER’S THEATER.

El inglés es el idioma oficial de la ciencia y la tecnología. La mayor parte de la información publicada en el internet está escrita en este idioma, por esa razón para ser considerado un profesional competente se debe aprender inglés desde los niveles iniciales de formación para desarrollar destrezas que permitan acceder a información actualizada. Con respecto a la destreza lectora, la exactitud, prosodia y el utomatismo son elementos básicos que se consideran regularmente en las aulas ecuatorianas. En este contexto, el objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar la correlación de la estrategia del “Reader’s Theatre” en el desarrollo de la fluidez lectora. La población investigada fue un grupo de niños entre 10 y 12 años de edad con quienes se aplicó una metodología basada en el enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo con la utilización de trabajo de campo y un diseño cuasi experimental. En la fase de experimento, se empleó la estrategia del “Reader’s Theatre” mediante el uso de libretos y rúbricas aplicadas a 82 estudiantes de una institución primaria pública. Para la medición de la efectividad de la estrategia se utilizó un pre test y un post test. Los resultados demuestran que la estrategia del “Reader’s Theatre” mejora la fluidez lectora.