and pictures on them. He argues that cue cards will help students to speak up easily in the form of words or phrases even sentences when they are involved
in a conversation. In line with Harmer, Cambridge English Language Assesment 2015, cue card is defined as a card on which there isare a
words or a pictures to prompt or encourage learners to produce particular
language, often during a controlled practice activity or drill.
In addition, Mora 1994 defined cue card as a medium with pictures or words that contains clues. Teacher can use it to teaching speaking in order to
stimulate students’ idea. Those stimulation help students to do speaking activities such as describing someone or something from the clues orally. It
can be conclude that cue cards are small cards with words or pictures that contain clues. Cue cards can be used in individual, pair work, and group
work. Cue Cards can attract the students’ interest to participate actively in teaching and learning process of speaking.
b. The Reason of Using Cue Cards for Teaching Speaking
Hamalik 1986 in Arsyad 2009 stated that the purpose of using media is to motivate students during the learning process. Since Junior High School
students easily got bored and disruptive in class. Implementing appropriate media is highly recommended to create effectives activities and increase
students’ motivation in learning English.
One of appropriate media to teach speaking is cue card. Teacher can provide cue cards to help students to speak up easily in the form of words or
phrases even sentences when they are involved in a conversation. Furthermore, cue cards help to in
crease students’ motivation because it provides a lot of opportunities to the students in using target language by
interacting with their friends. In addition to this, the use of cue cards in speaking activities enables the students to employ natural conversational
language assisted by pre-prepared cues. It also helps the students become well prepared and confident in speaking.
c. The Advantages of Using Cue Cards for Teaching Speaking
Cambridge English Language Assesment 2015 defined as a card on which there isare a words or a pictures to prompt or encourage
learners to produce particular language, often during a controlled practice activity or drill. Furthermore, Harmer 2007 also defined cue cards as cards
with words and pictures on them. He argues that cue cards will help students to speak up easily in the form of words or phrases even sentences when they
are involved in a conversation.
According to the definition of cue cards by the expert, there were
several advantages of using cue cards for teaching speaking 1 cue cards
encourage students to produce particular language, often during a controlled practice activity or drill, 2 cue cards
increase the students’ vocabulary mastery, pronunciation, and grammar accuracy by pre-teach, practice, or
review the input text in the cue cards, 3 cue cards motivated students to
learn since it gives the students something to talk about, something to focus
on other than their own uncertainty with the new language.
Derived from those advantages of using cue cards for teaching speaking, using cue cards media teaching speaking can help students to
generate their ideas in order to communicate fluently.
d. The Use of Cue Cards in Speaking Activity
