The Role of the Local Wisdom “Topekkong Agreement” in Enhancing Students’ Speaking Proficiency
Keywords:
Drama text, English Performance, Mixed Method, Rereading, discussingAbstract
The objective of the research is to find out and describe how can the local genius drama text “Topekkong Agreement” affecting the students’ speaking proficiency. The research applied Mixed Method. The object of the research was the fifth semester of English and Literature Department that consisted of 28 students whom were divided into sixth group discussions. The research result indicates that students’ English proficiency by using the local genius drama text significantly affective where it gained a development, the mean score of pretests is 6,63, which is categorized as fairly good and posttest is 7.83 its categorized as good (8.05 > 6.80) and the standard deviation was 0.47 pretest and standard deviation of posttest was 0.62. The T score is ( -18.90) the probability test is (1,666) so the result of score -18.90 < 1,666. Ho is rejected. It means that there is significantly between pretest and posttest by role play drama text to affecting English proficiency. The questionnaires were used to find out the student’s interest after being taught through role playing the local genius drama text. Underlined the result of data analysis, the researcher pointed out that role-playing drama text from local genius history can affecting the students’ English proficiency in two aspects they are English proficiency, which consists of speaking accuracy, fluency, and comprehensibility, Furthermore, role playing activities generate aspects imitative, intensive, responsive, transactional (dialogue) , interpersonal, and extensive.
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