Improving students’ speaking ability through describing picture at grade XI SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan

Hasonangan, Mora (2017) Improving students’ speaking ability through describing picture at grade XI SMA Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was talking about improving students’ speaking ability through describing picture at grade XI of SMAN 3 Padangsidimpuan. Most of students’ had lack vocabulary in the way they memorized, students always used Bataknese/mother thongue in speaking, students could not produce words directly, shame and afraid of making mistake when they wanted to speak English. The research was done to solve the students’ problems in speaking skill. The purposes of this research were: to know the students’ speaking ability was improved if it would be taught through describing picture at grade XI of SMAN 3 Padangsidimpuan. Research methodology that used in this research was classroom action research by implementing the Kemmis design which consisted of four steps. There were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. To solve the students’ problems in speaking the researcher applied Describing Picture technique. The researcher used two cycles, every cycle consisted of two meetings. Moreover, the participants of this research were the class of XI IPA-6 (29 students) and also there was collaboration with an English teacher. Meanwhile, the data was derived from speaking tests. Based on the research result showed the improvement mean score of the students in first cycle was 63.58 (37.93%) and second cycle was 79.72 (93.10%). Based on the research result the mean of the second cycle was higher than the first cycle, it shows the improvement of students’ mean score and students’ percentage.. In conclusion, describing picture could improve students’ speaking ability at grade XI of SMA Negeri Padangsidimpuan. Hopefully, the research result could be positive input for other researchers and teachers to conduct the research, particularly on speaking issue.

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