The Effect of Using Picture on Students' Speaking Ability on Seventh Grade of SMPN 2 Rambipuji in The 2018/2019 Academic Year

Speaking is one of the basic skills of the English language. However English is very important to learn. But for Indonesian students’, learning English is not an easy task. The students’ should master English in all skills. There are four major skills of English: listening, speaking, reading and writing which support each other. In fact, is not easy for students’ to communicate with others by use speaking English accurately, fluently, and acceptably. The students get difficulty in developing their ideas, they cannot remember anything to say and they do not have any motivation to express themselves.

In this research the problem is “Is there any significant difference in speaking ability between the students which uses picture and the students which not uses picture on the seventh grade at SMPN2 Rambipuji in the 2018/2019 Academic Year?”

The design of this reserach is experimental research, the design of this research was quasi experimental with the pretest and posttest design. The subject is the seventh class consist 40 students, the data collecting by using speaking test using picture on descriptive text.

It was used two classes is experimental and control group after calculation by using SPSS the result of the Independent Samples Test, the Sig. (2- tailed) is 0,000 and less than 0,05 (0,000< 0,05) it means the Null Hypothesis (H0) is rejected. So, Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted then the result is there is significant difference in students’ speaking ability using picture on descriptive text between the students who were taught using pictureon descriptive text.

There is significant effect on students’ speaking ability of using picture in experimental group. It can be concluded that teaching speaking of using picture on descriptive has significant effect in form of students’ speaking ability of the seventh grade students at SMPN 2 Rambipuji in the 2018/2019 academic year.