The Advantages of Using Audio Visual Aids

After being calculated using test of significance t-test, the t-value was 2.18. Using interpolation, the t-table obtained was 1.67. It was clear that t-value is higher than critical t-value. Therefore there is significant difference in students’ achievement who were taught using audio visual aids, especially conversation video, than the students who were taught using conventional teaching technique. It indicates that audio visual aids are effective in helping students improving their skill in speaking of interpersonal and transactional conversations. Regarding the findings above, it can be underlined that the use of audio-visual aids can improve the speaking skills of the students. It is very effective in helping the students to practice more in speaking. Based on those previous researches conducted, it can be concluded that audio- visual aids played a good role in teaching learning process, especially for improving the students’ speaking skills. Since in SMP N 2 Sanden rarely used audio-visual aids in teaching learning process, it would be a good chance to teach the students using this media. What makes this study difference is that the first researcher conducted the research at elementary school and that class was categorized as an RSBI school. While this study will be conducted in the rural area junior high school and the school is not categorized as an RSBI school. The second researcher conducted her research at junior high school, but her research was an experimental research study which makes it differ from the research that would be conducted. In Jogjakarta, especially Bantul, the studies which concerns on using audio-visual aids are rarely found. The students in SMP N 2 Sanden are less motivated, so that they need interesting media which can motivate them, that is audio visual aids. By using it, they can learn the daily expressions in a fun way. It will create a better environment for the students as well. SMP N 2 Sanden has complete fasilities, but they are almost never been used. From those reasons, this study needs to be conducted. Those are the reasons why I tried to conduct a research by “Using Audio-Visual Aids to Support the Communicate Teaching in Effort to Improve the Speaking Skills of Grade Eight Students of SMP N 2 Sanden in the Academic Year of 20142015”.

C. Conceptual Framework

Speaking is one of the language skills that have important roles in students’ language learning mastery. That is why, teaching speaking is not an easy thing to do. It has to deal with many things like the techniques, the materials, the classroom speaking activities, the media, and many more. Students need to speak and practice more in order to master the language they learned, in this case, English. Unfortunately, students are mostly afraid and shy to speak in English, because they do not want to make mistakes and be laughed at by their friends. They did not have sufficient vocabularies neither have so much opportunity to speak. The students need a real model which can motivate and give them the right examples. They need more exposure on practicing the language. Those problems were also found in SMP N 2 Sanden. The students of SMP N 2 Sanden rarely spoke in English. They had less motivation to learn English because they did not know why they should learn English since they spoke in Indonesian or