THE USE OF PICTURE SERIES TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MAN TEMANGGUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019

Hasanah, uswatun (2019) THE USE OF PICTURE SERIES TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MAN TEMANGGUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Hasanah, Uswatun. 2019. The Use of Picture Series to Enchance the Students’ Speaking Skills for the Eleventh Grades Students of MAN Temanggung in the Academic Year 2018/2019”A Graduating Paper. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. State Institute for Islamic Studies Salatiga. Counselor: Dr. Setia Rini, M.Pd. The objectives of the study were to find out the implementation of Picture Series and to know the improvement of students’ speaking skills by using Picture Series for the eleventh grade students of MAN Temanggung in the academic year of 2018/2019. The numbers of subject of the research were 21 students. The methodology of research was classroom action research. The techniques of collecting data were pre-test and post-test (oral test) to find out the students’ skills by recording technique to find out the students’ pronunciation, intonation, fluency, grammar and vocabulary. The second technique of collecting data was observation to find out the students’, teachers’ activities, and the utilization of Picture Series. The third technique of collecting data was field note to record all the detail activities while doing teaching and learning process in the classroom from the beginning until the end of the teaching learning process. The writer finds that there was a significant improvement on students’ speaking skills after Picture Series was implemented as media in learning English in cycle I and cycle II. The result of pre-test cycle I was 52.37% of the students who reached the passing grade. The total presentation of the students who did not reach the passing grade in the post-test cycle I was 19.04%. T-test in the cycle I was 4.402 while t-table was 2.086 for df 20 and the significance 5%. Thus the sig. 2 (tailed) value < 0.05 and T-test was bigger than T-table. Thus, action hypothesis was accepted. Meanwhile, in pre-test cycle II there were 16 students who could pass the passing grade, and the presentation was 76.18%. Meanwhile, there were 23.80% who did not reach the passing grade. T-test in the cycle II was 9.954 while T-table showed 2.086 for df 20 and the significance 5%. The sig. 2 (tailed) value < 0.05 and T-test was bigger than T-table. Thus, action hypothesis was accepted. The target presentation of the passing grade had been achieved. The implementation of Picture Series was successful to improve students’ speaking skills. Key Words: Picture Series, Speaking skills.

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