Enhancing Students’ Speaking Skill Through Gallery Walk Method at MTs Annidhom Jember in The 2016/2017 Academic Year

The objective of conducting this research was to find out whether the use of gallery walk method can enhance the students’ speaking skill in retelling recount text or not. As the preliminary study of the students in MTs Annidhom Jember school, the researcher found that most of students unable to speak well because they think speaking is a boring activity to do. This problem caused by their difficulties in constructing English word grammatically. In this research, the problem “ how can gallery walk method enhance the eighth grade students’ speaking skill at MTs Annidhom Jember school in the 2016/ 2017 academic year. The design of this research is Classroom Action Research. The research subject is VIII A class consisting of 19 students. The data collected by using speaking test and observation checklist. In order to analyze the data students’ speaking score, percentage formula is used. The researcher used two cycles which consist of three meetings each. Those the result of this cycle achieved the criteria of success. Gallery walk method enhance the students’ speaking skill in the second cycle from the percentage of the students’ score ≥ 70 (E= 73.68%). It is concluded that gallery walk method can enhance the eighth grade students’ speaking skill at MTs Annidhom Jember school in the 2016/ 2017 academic year by involving the students working in group and sharing the ideas. So that they can exercise their speaking skill with their friends.