THE USE OF PICTURE SERIES TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

Rike Febrina Aska, Basturi Hasan, Deddy Supriyadi

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penggunaan picture series untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa dalam procedure text di kelas tiga SMPN 1 Gadingrejo dan aspek yang paling meningkat. Subjek penelitian ini adalah kelas IX.5 dengan jumlah siswa 30 orang. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif dengan menggunakan desain one group pretest-posttest. Kemampuan berbicara siswa akan diberi nilai berdasarkan aspek micro skill yaitu pronunciation, vocabulary, dan grammar kemudian dianalisa dan dihitung dengan menggunakan SPSS. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata dari pretest dan posttest meningkat dengan signifikan dari 47,47 ke 62,93 dan level signifikansi 0,00 (<0,05). Hasil penelitian juga menunjukkan bahwa vocabulary adalah aspek yang paling meningkat dengan peningkatan sebesar 7,10. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa picture series dapat digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran berbicara, khususnya procedure text.. Untuk penelitian mendatang disarankan untuk fokus ke aspek macro skill.

 

This research was aimed at investigating the use of picture series to increase students’ speaking ability in procedure text at the third grade of SMPN 1 Gadingrejo and what the most increasing aspect is. The subject of this research was class IX.5 with 30 students. This was quantitative research with one group pretest-posttest design. Students’ speaking were given score based on micro skill aspects they are pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar then analyzed and computed by using SPSS. The result showed that the mean score from pretest and posttest increased significantly from 47.47 to 62.93 and the significant 2-tailed was 0.00 (<0.05). The result also showed that vocabulary is the most increasing aspect with the increase about 7/10. It could be concluded that picture series is able to be used as a learning media for speaking, especially for procedure text. For the further research is suggested to focus on speaking macro skill aspects.

Keywords: picture series, procedure text, speaking ability.

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