The Use of Describing Picture Strategy in Improving the Students’ Speaking Ability at UPTD SMPN 22 Barru
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to improve students speaking skill because the describing picture strategy method is a good method to improve students speaking skill, students self-confidence is also better able to build, students can also be more active in class and learn in English. The researcher use pre-experimental to carry out their research. The population in this study were all students eight class of SMPN 22 Barru for academic year 2021-2022. The researcher took one class of the second grade students at SMPN 22 Barru as the sample. It was class VIII-1 consisted of 32 students. The researcher used a oral test as the instrument to get the data. To collect the data, the researcher gave students twice test, there are pre-test and post-test. The researcher gave directions to students namely describing picture in the class with a minimum speaking duration of 5 minutes for the pre-test. The researcher asked the students to describe norally the picture which given by the researcher for the post-test.The results of the data analysis of the students average scores obtained by researchers during the study were 38.3 in pre-test and 83.92 in post-test. The speaking ability of class VIII-1 students at UPTD SMPN 22 Barru improved after being taught using describing picture strategy. This is reinforced by the results of the t-test where H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted.
