Title: The effect of teaching speaking using pictorial stories on the speaking achievement of the sixth graders of SDN Kayen 2 Jombang
Abstract: Nowadays, teaching English is very essential because speaking English has an important role in communication. In mastering English, there are four basic skills to be learnt. They are listening, speaking, reading, reading and writing. Even though there are four basic speaking skills, not all students can master them well especially when it comes to speaking skill. Many of them consider speaking
as a difficult skill to learn. The time allocation which given to the speaking class is limited and the students don not have enough chances to practice their speaking
skill. Furthermore, the learning atmosphere does not encourage them to practice their speaking skills during the lesson due large number of students in class.
Moreover, they are afraid of failure, being laughed at, and being ridiculed when practicing speaking skills. During the writer’s experimental time, she found that many students often feel unmotivated and uneasy to tell a story since they were often faced with difficulty in getting a clear description about what is being discussed and stimulating students desire to learn further.
To overcome the above problem, the writer tried to conduct a new technique in teaching speaking that is pictorial stories. In this study, the writer want to know whether there is significant difference between the students’
speaking achievement taught using pictorial story and those taught using short passage.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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