An analysis of students oral performance of speaking ability in MAN Sidoarjo

Test of spoken language are difficult to be in form of objective test, because it is complex skill to permit any reliable analysis to be made for the purpose of objective testing. Further, we ever hear mistrusting test. It means students true ability is not always reflected in the test score that they obtain. Because of these problems, the educators have advocated the use of performance based assessments. Considering these problem there are many kinds of performance that are used to conduct performance assessment, one of them is performance assessment on students oral performance on speaking ability. And one of teachers in MAN Sidoarjo uses performance assessment on students oral performance on speaking ability. This research was conducted in MAN Sidoarjo in the class X1. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative. Through this research, the researcher wanted to know the implementation of performance assessment on students oral performance of speaking ability, how students speaking ability is after the implementing of performance assessment, and what are the students responses to the implementation of performance assessment.