SHARED BOOK EXPERIENCE IMPLEMENTATION: PRACTICE TEACHING MODEL TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

This paper focuses on discussing practice teaching in improving students’ speaking ability. In some English classes, students’ speaking ability still becomes a big interest for the teacher to pay attention because of some difficulties. To face this problem, Shared Book Experience strategy is posing to solve problem in improving the students’ speaking ability. Referring to the research problem, the research objective is to find out how Shared Book Experience strategy can improve students’ speaking ability. The design of this research is classroom action research (CAR). The research subject is Fourth semester students of English language Education Program university of Muhammadiyah Jember. The data was analyzed by percentage formula. The implementation of Shared Book Experience strategy was group and individual work for the students. They did for both principle and practice. Principle refers to the way they share through presentation and discussion the theory they had read from the book. The practices refers to the way how they practice the theory about certain theory of Teaching English in the classroom. By sharing their knowledge from reading a book about teaching English and by practicing the theory of teaching English in classroom, they are facilitated to pra ctice speaking English, so they could do some efforts to improve their speaking ability. Those caused the result of cycle two achieved the criteria of success (≥75). Shared Book Experience strategy improved the students’ speaking ability in two cycles from 53% (26 from 49 students) in the first cycle to 82% (40 from 49 students) in the second cycle. Based on the research result, the conclusion is that Shared Book Experience is able to improve the students’ speaking ability by doing presentation and discussion about certain theory of teaching, and by practicing the theory in English classroom. Keywords: Shared Book Experience, Practice Teaching Model, Speaking Ability