The CAR was aimed at improving the students’ speaking ability through
Bamboo Dance Technique. The Classroom Action research was done at SMAN 4
Purwokerto with 32 students of class 10th MIA 2 in academic year 2014/2015 as
the subject of the research. The research was done on Jan 2015. The writer
worked collaboratively with English teacher of SMAN 4 Purwokerto. The CAR
was done based on the Kemmis and Mc. Taggart’s CAR design. The writer took
two cycles with four actions (two actions in each cycle). Then, the result of the
action was reflected to determine the next step.
The data were collected through observation, test and questionnaire. From
the result of the data analysis, it could be proved that the Bamboo Dance
technique could improve the students speaking ability. It could be seen from the
students’ result in post test one was 70.47. It improved in cycle two, in post test
two: 75.78. So, the improvement from post test one to post test two was 26.30%.
Besides that, the research result could be seen from the observation result. The
result of observation showed that their activities were good. The average students’
observation in cycle 1 was 41.41%; in cycle 2 was 62.31%. So, the improvement
from both was 20.90%. It indicated that Bamboo Dance technique motivated the
students to join in teaching learning process. Furthermore, this research was also
supported by the result of questionnaire, which was 89.29%. It indicated that most
of the students gave positive response toward Bamboo Dance Technique and also
showed that they were more interested in speaking class because they could speak
better than they had done before CAR.