Findings of Cycle II

Ahmad 2013 states that in the audio-visual aids, both the listening ears and viewing faculties eyes are involved. Such aids include television programs, video films, motion pictures, synchronized audio-slide projectors, computers and computer-assisted instructions and so on. Cartoon films are also a useful medium for developing, and chiseling the skills of the students. Based on the interview, the students’ said that they got some improvements on their speaking skills by watching the video. They knew the correct pronunciation and could use it on their dialogues. Even their fluency was also improved since they got more confidence after they knew the correct pronunciation from the videos. The implementation of audio-visual aids videos and its supporting actions including applying some communicative speaking tasks, using classroom English during the teaching and learning process, giving feedback on the students’ works, giving handouts and giving rewards were successful in improving the students’ speaking skills of the class 8 C students of SMP Negeri 2 Sanden Bantul Yogyakarta in the academic year 20142015. That finding could be inferred from the observation and the interviews with the English teacher and the students during the research. Before the implementation of the actions, the students’ speaking skills were assessed through pre-test on September 15 th 2014. The students had to perform a dialogue in pairs. Meanwhile, the post-test was carried out after the implementation of the actions on October 10 th 2014. The students were asked to perform by acting out their own dialogue in front of the class. The table below shows the comparison between the pre-test and post-test results in general. Table 4.16 The Comparison between the Pre-test and Post-test Results Score Pre-test Post-test Mean

51.34 76.15

The changes on the students’ scores increased significantly based on the table above. The students, who just gained 51.34 in the pre-test, were able to increase their score up to 76.15 in the post-test. It indicated that they were successful in making considerable improvement. In conclusion, the use of audio- visual aids was proven to be effective to improve the students’ speaking ability. The change between the results of pre-test and post-test can be seen in this following figure: Figure 4.5 The Comparison between the Result of Pre-test and Post-test Moreover, the results of the students’ speaking performance during the implementation were also presented to support the finding that the use of audio- visual aids could improve the students’ speaking skills. The improvement of the 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Pre Test Post Test Improvement Improvement student’s speaking performance during the implementation of the actions can be seen in this following figure. Figure 4.6 The Mean Scores of the Students’ Performance on the Fourth Aspects of Speaking Skills during the Implementation 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 Pre-Test Progress-Test Post-Test Pronunciation Grammar Fluency Vocabulary 109