This research
was aimed to boost students‟ participation in learning
English through ice-breaking activities. It was used Classroom Action Research
(CAR) which was conducted at the VIII G students of SMP N 1 Purwokerto in
academic year 2013/2014 as the subject of the research. The data were collected
through observation, questionnaire, documentation, and test as secondary data.
The result of this research showed that there were improvement of
students‟ part
icipation. The first data from pre-obseravtion showed that students
participation only achieved
30,86%. In Cycle 1, students‟ participation increase
d
58,09%, and it could achie
ve 70,26% in Cycle 2. Thus, students‟ participatio
n was
higher than 65% as the success indicator. Besides that, the result was supported by
the result of questionnaire that got positive response from the students, and test
result that also showed improvement. The average score of students achievement
in p
re-test was 69,26, in Cycle 1 showed 71,43 and 86,67 in Cycle 2. Therefore,
the improvement of students‟ achievement
in Cycle 1 was 3,13% , and 25,13% in
Cy
cle 2. Looking at the great result, it can be concluded that ice-breaking activity
was able to boos
t students‟ participation well in learning English.