The Students' Perceptions of the Use of Picture Series in Learning Speaking English at the Third Grade of Senior High School Muhammadiyah Pekalongan, Lampung Timur

Khusnul Khotimah Nabilah, Mahpul Mahpul, Tuntun Sinaga

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui persepsi siswa dalam penggunaan media serial gambar dalam pembelajaran berbicara bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif yang melibatkan murid SMA kelas tiga. Subjek terdiri dari observasi partisipan. Instrumen penelitian ini adalah rekaman video dan wawancara. Untuk mengetahui persepsi siswa, peneliti menganalisis persepsi siswa berdasarkan lima kategori persepsi yang diadopsi dari Robinson (2001a), yaitu tingkat kesulitan, tingkat stres, tingkat kepercayaan diri, minat dan motivasi. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ada alasan positif (+) dan negatif (-) persepsi siswa tentang penggunaan media serial gambar dalam belajar berbicara bahasa Inggris. Dan hasil menunjukkan sebagian besar siswa berkomentar kurangnya kemampuan untuk menemukan dan mengubah kata-kata bahasa Inggris lainnya yang mengacu pada prosedur ketiga pada media serial gambar. Oleh karena itu, disimpulkan bahwa media serial gambar berdampak positif dan berdampak negatif bagi siswa dalam belajar berbicara bahasa Inggris.

 

The objective of this study is to find out the students’ perceptions of the use of picture series in learning speaking English. This study used qualitative method involving the third grade of senior high school students. The subject consisted of participant observation. The instrument of this research was video recording and interview. To know the students’ perceptions, the researcher analyzed the students’ perceptions by interview questions were adopted from Robinson (2001a) such as difficulty level, stress degree, confidence degree, interest and motivation. The results of this research showed that there were positive (+) and negative (-) reasons of students’ perceptions of the use of picture series in learning speaking English. The result showed most of the students commented they were lack of ability to find and change other English words referred to third procedure of picture series. Therefore, it concludes that picture series medium makes positive impacts and negative impacts to the students in learning speaking English.

 

Keywords: students’ perceptions, picture series, speaking


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