Building Students’ Talkactive Through Dramatic Inquiry
Keywords:
Building, Talkactive, dramatic, inquiry, contributeAbstract
This study aims to analyze how building students’ talkactive by using drama text inquiry. This model is developed as an answer to finding out the appropriate strategy in learning English effectively. The research is used mixed method quantitative and qualitative. In collecting data is used observation and questionnaire. Observation is used to know the students’ activity in learning English by using drama text. Questionnaire is used to know what responds after learning by using dramatic inquiry in the class. The research result indicates that students’ English speaking significantly affective and dramatic inquiry can building their talkative where 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 dramatic inquiry to building their English-speaking ability. The questionnaires were used to find out the student’s interest after being taught through inquire the text of drama in the class. This research contributes as struggle to finding an effective method in English learning specifically at university.
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