IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING FLUENCY IN PRIVATE CLASS: A CLASROOM ACTION RESEARCH

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After knowing the positive effects from what have been done and the students’ problem to
speak English, the teacher did a problem-solving for that English private class. To identify topic,
researcher can reflect on their daily professional lives and ask herself, Here, the teacher gave as
much as tutees can speak more often in this English private group. It is fascinated to observe how
improve students’ fluency to speak English. After watching the students’ condition and the students’
problem, so the teacher used reporting technique to improve the students’ speaking fluency.
Reporting technique gives opportunity for them to report about the free topic that they were interested
in. Students were less of fluency when speaking English. So, how did tutor improve students’ fluency
to speak English as a target language? This research will answer this question. The design of this
research was descriptive qualitative. There has been an improvement of students speaking fluency in
this English private group. By conducting this research, the teacher solved the students’ problems, the
classroom’s problem. For nine meetings, the teacher motivated, guided, and gave opportunities the
students to practice English speaking more often. As a result, the students speaking fluency
improved. The teacher should limit the use of first language in classroom interaction and also
motivate them that improve their fluency of speaking English is greatly needed.
Keywords: Classroom Action Research, ELT Contexts, Private Class, Students’ Speaking Fluency