The third researcher is an experimental research by Asfa 2010 focused on the use of Describing Picture in describing thing and person. It showed that the
students’ speaking skill of experimental group which using Picture was higher than the control group. Although this research was intended to know the
significant influences of Picture, but the result showed that this technique gave significant result in speaking skill
From the results above, it can be concluded that the use of picture as the media is appropriate in the process of teaching and learning. By using picture, it
can also improve the students’ active participation. So the use of picture as the media in teaching and learning process of English class is very useful for the
students to improve their speaking ability.
2.7. Action Hyphotheses
Based on literature above, the hypotheses of this classroom action research were formulated as follows.
1. The use of picture series can make the eighth grade students actively
participate in the teaching learning process at MTS Negeri Bondowoso 1. 2.
The use of picture series can improve the eighth grade students’ speaking ability at MTS Negeri Bondowoso 1.
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III. RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter presents the research method used in this present study. They were: research design, research area, research subjects, operational definition of
the terms, data collection methods, research procedures, and data analysis method.
3.1 Research Design
The design of this research was Classroom Action research CAR. This research was conducted to improve the eighth grade
students’ speaking ability through picture series. The result of preliminary study showed that the eighth
grade students speaking ability at MTS Negeri Bondowoso 1 needed to be improved because the students still had difficulties to express their ideas.
According to Elliot 1993:69, action research is the study of a social situation including education with a view to improve the quality of the action. McMilan
1992:44 states that classroom action research is a type of applied action research with the purpose of solving a specific classroom problem or making decision at
single local site. The purpose of this action research was to solve a specific classroom problem or to make a decision at a single local site. Based on the
statement above, a classroom action research was appropriate to solve the problem faced by the eighth grade students of MTS Negeri Bondowoso 1,
especially class VIII-D that had problem in speaking skill. In this research, the action was conducted collaboratively by the researcher
and one of the English teachers of MTS Negeri Bondowoso 1. The research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four stages of activities, namely:
1 planning the action, 2 implementation of the actions, 3 classroom observation and evaluation, and 4 reflection of the actions.
