The Effectiveness of Using English Dramatization Role-play Approach to Improve The Eleventh Grade Student’s Pronunciation of State Vocational High School 1 Karanganyar Study Program of Accountancy in The Academic Year 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find whether the use of English dramatization role-play approach is effective or not to improve students’ pronunciation on the eleventh grade students of State Vocational High School 1 Karanganyar study program of accountancy in academic year 2012/2013. Role-play is a popular pedagogical activity in communicative language-teaching classes while drama is a powerful language teaching tool that interactively all of the class period. Dramatization role-play approach is a kind of role-play which is inserted values of drama so it can also provide the mean for connecting students’ emotions and cognition as it enables students to take risk with language and experience the connection between thought and action. Considering the result of t-test showed that t-value is higher than t-table (2.19 > 2.03). It means that Ha is accepted; thus, it can be concluded that the use of English dramatization role-play approach is effective to improve the 11^th grade students’ pronunciation of State Vocational High School1 Karanganyar study program of accountancy.

Keywords: English, effectiveness, dramatization role-play approach, pronunciation.