Using Picture describing activity to improve students’ English speaking skills at Pondok Pesantren Fatihul ulum Al-Mahfudz Tanggul

Trisnanda Ade Indah Eka Tantiasari, - (2021) Using Picture describing activity to improve students’ English speaking skills at Pondok Pesantren Fatihul ulum Al-Mahfudz Tanggul. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Program of English Education.

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Trisnanda Ade Indah Eka Tantiasari, 2021: Using Picture describing activity to improve students’ English speaking skills at Pondok Pesantren Fatihul ulum Al-Mahfudz Tanggul Keyword: Picture Describing Activity, students’English skills Speaking skill is one of important aspect of English lesson that should be mastered by students because there are some aspects which have to be deal with in speaking. There are vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, grammar and comprehension. However, the students often found some difficulties in speaking English such as wrong spelling, lacked of vocabulary, missed pronunciation, grammar, unmotivated. There are so many activities to enhance students’ speaking skills. One of activities that can be used for enhancing students’ english speaking skills especially in speaking skills that is picture describing activity. Picture describing is a simple and easy activity to do at class. Pictures are helpful to support the teaching and learning process. There are several advantages of using pictures in teaching English.This activity requires the students to practice their English speaking skills. This research used Classroom Action Research as the approach. Classroom action Research is a research conducted in classroom by carrying out a treatment that aims to improve the ability or achivement os students. This research was conducted at English room club (ERC) of Pondok Pesantren Fatihul Ulum Al-Mahfudz Tanggul which consisted of 27 students This research was conducted in 2 cycle. The reseach question of this study is “How can picture describing activity improve ERC students’ English speaking skills at Pondok Pesantren Fatihul Ulum Al-Mahfudz?. The objective of this research were intented to improve students’ English speaking skills at Pondok Pesantren Fatihul ulum AlMahfudz Tanggul. After conducting research, the researcher found an improvement of students English speaking skills which is in pre-test the learners’ mean score was 51,29 then there a little improvemet on post-test cycle 1 the students’ mean score was 67,59 and the students’ mean score in post cycle 2 was 76,11. In Cycle 2, there are 81,48% of students got score >70 which mean the criteria of success has been achived. The observation checklist also showed an improvement in using picture describing activity students more confident when they asked to speak in front of class, the students could answer teacher’s question, students tried to ask question to clarify understanding, the students felt enthusiastic in doing the task and the students gave a good attitude and response during teaching learning process.

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