The main aim of this research is to examine the students' MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak's speaking ability found in describing the picture, and to know to what extent the pictures could help the students' learning process. The subjects of this research are 30 students in VIII class of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak. In collecting data, the researcher used testing (pre-test, post-test 1, and post-test 2), observation, and documentation. The researcher concluded that there was a significant improvement in the use of descriptive imagery on speaking skills in eighth grade students of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak.
Tujuan utama dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengkaji keterampilan berbicara siswa MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak dalam mendeskripsikan gambar dan untuk mengetahui sejauh mana gambar dapat membantu proses pembelajaran siswa. Subyek penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VIII MTS Darussalam Seputih yang berjumlah 30 orang.Dalam pengumpulan data peneliti menggunakan tes (pre-test, post-test 1 dan post-test 2), observasi dan dokumentasi. Peneliti menemukan bahwa terdapat peningkatan yang signifikan pada keterampilan berbicara siswa kelas VIII MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak dengan menggunakan deskripsi bergambar.
Background of the Study
Many aspects that the students need to develop and use English as a means in education. Therefore, if the students do not learn how to speak in the language classroom, they may soon become bored and lose interest in learning who are interested in learning a foreign language. One way to improve students' speaking ability is that the student should be more active than the teacher and the students should also have self-confidence, this can be tried by describing picture strategy.
Pictures provide serious language practice and can be invaluable in the classroom for stimulating discussion and bringing great variety to lessons. Source: Students' speaking score at The Eight Graders of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak, taken on the pre-survey on May 5, 2016. Based on the background of the problem above, the researcher would like to promote a research with the title: The Implementation of pictures in the improvement of students' speaking ability in the eight graders of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak in the academic year 2017/2018.
Problem Identification
Therefore, the researcher wants to know if Improving Students Speaking Skill through Pictures at the Graders class. Based on the background of the above problem, the researcher would like to promote a research entitled: The implementation of pictures in improving students' speaking skills in the eighth graders of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak in the academic year.
Problem Limitation
Problem Formulation
The Objectives of the Research
Benefits of the Study 1. For the Students
THEORETICAL REVIEW 1. Concept of Speaking Ability
Concept of Pictures
Hornby states that image is painting, drawing, sketching of some special work of art.17 Furthermore, Rahmadi states that image is two-dimensional visual representations of person, places or things. Most often it is not only a photograph, but it can also be a sketch, a cartoon, a mural (lukisan dinging) or even a map, graph and chart. For example, rabbit, bear, Aliando Syarief, Laudia Cintya Bella, banana, grape, beach, rose flower, etc. b.
We know the story by looking at the picture because we can't always imagine things just by reading. 18http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=http://www.answer.com/Q/What_are_the_Advant ages_and_Disadvantages_of_Pictures&ei=w3Lbp-Gb&lc=id-. It has been mentioned that the goal of teaching English in junior high school is to create students' interest and joy in studying, one of the ways in by using pictures.
For example, the students are given the picture of kangaroo, so they will know that the animal like it is kangaroo, an Australian animal that jumps along and carries its baby in a pouch. Because by implementing pictures the students will know what is the real thing they are dealing with. For example, the students are explained the words about plants, and they are also given the pictures.
This means that they don't just get the abstract idea, but they also experience the real thing. Based on explanation above, picture as media can be used as an alternative way in the learning process of preposition of place. The researcher therefore concludes that the implementation of picture is the way or ways to improve interest-learning students to get purposeful speaking in the learning process.
Action Hypotheses
They are divided into three levels, namely 38 students are in ninth grade, 30 students are in eighth grade and 30 students are in seventh grade.
Object of the Study
Concept of Classroom Action Research
Action research deals with social practice and involves the direct interaction between teachers and groups of students. It is normal for a project to go through two or more cycles in an interactive process; the improvement of the research can be seen from a series of cycles, each of which includes lessons from previous cycles. Research is done to improve an object by using appropriate methodology rules to get data and information and then analyze to solve the problem.
A class is a group of students who, at the same time, receive the same lesson from their teacher. McNiff points out that action research is a name given to the particular way of researching your own learning19. In a brief explanation, we can say that CAR is a reflective study done by the teacher in a class to get the solution of the problem until it is solved.
In addition, CAR helps the teacher to solve the problem by applying a new technique as an alternative way that leads to innovation. Consisting of two cycles, Action research takes place through a dynamic and complementary process that consists of four essential moments.
Plan
Cycle II
In this step, the researcher observed the learning process by using the observation method to collect the data in Action Plan II. In this step, the researcher compared the score of the pre-test and the post-test. The researcher assessed and reflected on the students' activities and. It is considered important for the researcher to develop the speaking skills of 8th grade students at MTs Darussalam Seputih Banyak by applying an appropriate technique.
By using this technique, the student's problems in teaching the learning process of speaking skills should be solved. In conducting the research, the researcher worked with a real MTs Darussalam English teacher Seputih Banyak as an observer and collaborator. The writer plays the role of an English teacher who teaches students speaking skills using pictures, while the role of a real English teacher is that of an observer who observes the study happening while the teaching of learning activities takes place in the classroom.
Also acts as a collaborator when assisting the writer in designing a lesson plan, conducting the reflection and determining the course of study. Here the researcher is not only an observer, but also took action by making a lesson plan and giving assessments. It is portrayed as a cyclical spiraling process with a step of planning, acting, observing and reflecting.
It means that classroom action research is a form of research that enables practitioners everywhere to examine and evaluate their work in the classroom. From the above explanation, it can be deduced that classroom action research is an investigation of teaching and learning in the classroom with the aim of solving a problem or fixing something.
Data Collection Technique
- Tests
- Observation
- Documentation
- The Field Note
- Indicator of the Succesfull
- Cycle I
To find out the results of the survey, the survey would be compared before and after the test. In this session, the researcher got the students' score after Test 1 in cycles I. Based on the students' results in cycle I, the researcher and the colleague realized that the problem is that some students are not confident.
Student score after Test 2 in the eighth grade of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak. Percentage Student's Posttest II Score in Cycle II No Interval Frequency Percentage Category. The results after test 1 and after test 2 show that there has been an improvement.
Comparison of the average score of students in the cycle before the test, cycle I after the test and cycle II after the test.
Discussion
- The Result of Students’ Learning Process
- The Implementation of Improving Students’ Result by Using Describing Pictures
From the table above, it can be seen that there was an improvement after test I and after test II. The students could reach the target, most of the students got grade ≥75 and they could understand the material and could speak better than before. Based on the result of the observation using descriptive pictures on speaking ability, it showed the hypothesis enjoyed that using descriptive pictures could improve students' speaking ability.
Description of figures that can be used by the teacher in the teaching process, where the students speak well and can have self-confidence. Based on the above explanation, it can be concluded that describing the pictures can improve the students' score. The discussion itself showed and proved that this is the reason why the implementation of the use of descriptive figures can improve the result of the learning process of students in Grade VIII of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak.
Considering all the data collected in the classroom action research, the researcher has some conclusions of the research and some suggestions in the research result.
Conclusion
Suggestions
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Yogesh Kumar Singh, Fundamental of Research Methodology and Statistics, New Delhi: New Age International Publisher, 2006. Score of Post-test 1 Students in Grade Eight of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak. Student score after test 3 in the eighth grade of MTS Darussalam Seputih Banyak.
