a skill, which is communicating the speech sound for expressing and conveying a message or idea.
The intention of teaching speaking in language classroom is to improve the students’ knowledge and skill to communicate both in oral and written forms.
The situations of speaking activity may occur anywhere. Brown and Yule 1983:8 say that any kinds of human interaction such as in a bus or train a
meeting or parties, lectures etc, intently to conduct a type of talk. The main purpose of conducting this activity is creating a living understandable
communication to rely on the messages of the speakers to the listeners. Based on the explanation above, the goal of teaching speaking is
improving the students communicative skills because by speaking, students can express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules
appropriate in each communicative circumstances.
2.1.1. Teaching Speaking in ELT
Speaking is an important thing in studying English as a foreign language. Learning to speak English is not easy for students. The teachers have to make the
class atmosphere pleasant and enjoyable for students. As Brown and Yule 1989:25 note that learning to talk in the foreign language is to help the students.
Therefore, English teacher should create an interesting environment in the classroom in order to obtain the goal of speaking. As Huges 2003:113 describe
that the objective of teaching spoken language is the development of the ability to interact successfully in that language and that involves comprehension as well as
production. According to Harmer 2007:123 there are three main reasons for getting
students to speak in the classroom. Speaking activities provide rehearsing opportunities, speaking task in which students try to use any or all of the language
they know to provide feedback for both teacher and students, so that the students have opportunities to activate the various elements of language they have stored in
their brains. Ricards 2008:21 divides talk into three: talk as interaction, talk as transaction, and talk as performance. Talk as interaction refers to conversation like
small talk or greetings. Talk as transaction indicates situations where the focus is on what is said or done such as discussion. Talk as performance refers to public
talk or it can be said that this talk transmits information to the audience. This last kind of talk was applied in this research for genre of text taken for research was
recount text. There are many media which can be used in teaching such as real objects,
charts, poster and picture series. The researcher chose picture series because the researcher thought that picture series was
suitable to improve students’ speaking skill. In this research, the students were asked to tell the story taking place in the
sequential pictures based on the picture series provided so it could make students a visual experience and stimulate them to talk.
2.1.2. The Aspects of Speaking Ability
