Using Picture Series to Improve the Students’ Ability in Speaking Narrative Text

Abstract

The research aimed at the use of picture series to improve the students’ speaking ability of tenth graders in narrative text. In accordance with the findings of preliminary study which showed that the students’ speaking performance was low, the researcher chose speaking as the focus skill to be improved. The skill was chosen because the students faced many difficulties to perform this skill, such as the lack of vocabulary, the coherence in speaking, and the difficulty to express the ideas. The study applied a classroom action research that was conducted in two cycles consisting of five meetings. The subject of this research was 34 tenth grade students of SMAN 4 Malang. The findings of the research revealed that using picture series improved the students’ speaking score in some aspects of speaking skills, comprising fluency, pronunciation, content, and coherence. Besides, it could make the student eager to be involved in the teaching and learning process.

The Effectiveness of Picture Series in Teaching Speaking

“…A study conducted by Choiriyah, (2021) using picture series is increase the motivation and confident of the students to speak English. Aprilia and Andreani (2020) claimed that the use if picture series combined with storytelling was interesting and contented strategy to be applied in the teaching and learning activity especially in teaching narrative story. It also could improve the students' speaking score.…”

English-for-Tourism Training to Improve the English Capability of Tourism Workers and Business Owners in the Department of Tourism, Culture, Youth, and Sports of Blitarregency

“…In this circumstance, the participants tended to elicit short description with simple vocabulary, but they were able to produce accurate description of the objects such as their colours, shapes, and materials. Describing pictures has been used to improve students' interest in learning speaking English across ages since pictures present interesting visuals (Aprilia & Andreani, 2020;Lavalle & Briesmater, 2017). As a follow-up after the describing practices, the trainers provided examples of description for the participants to get more familiar with natural expressions used in describing things.…”