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In conducting this research, the researcher refers to the Csabay’s explanation related to how to implement comic strips in teaching speaking. As the
effort to improve students’ speaking skill, the use of comic strips is applied in each stage of teaching technique, that is PPP Presentation, Practice, Production.
The comic strips are presented in the form of various tasks to stimulate and assist students in producing their spoken language.
The tasks that contain comic strips on the practice stage and production stage are designed as the information gap activity. On the practice stage, the
comic strips are in the form of pictures and bubbles with incomplete expressions or sentences that demand the students to complete it first and act them out
through role play. The random answers are available to this task. Meanwhile, on the production stage, the students do role play after arranging the disorder comic
strips and completing the blanks with appropriate answers. The available answers to these tasks are in the form of multiple choices.
4. The effect of using comic strips in teaching speaking
Using comic strips as media in teaching speaking is one of ways that has significance or positive effects to establish the effective teaching and learning
process. According to McCloud 1993, there are some positive effects of using comic strips in teaching speaking. Firstly, comic strips can provide images of the
characters, so it can help the students deal with spoken and even informal language. The second positive effect is that comic strips can arouse students’
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motivation to learn English in enjoyable and interesting ways, because the use of colors, the name of animals, and the identification of the main parts of human
body can be studied and understood easily by using comic. The last effect of the use of comics strips lies on the visual. It contains many visual symbols which
have the power to present concrete realities. The visuals are very impressive and interesting so that the information presented by comics will stay longer in the
students’ mind. Regarding to the positive effects of using comic strips in teaching
speaking, the teachers are recommended to implement comic strips as media to their teaching speaking in order to assist the students in producing their spoken
language and give many models in using spoken language which is presented in interesting ways through the strips.
D. Conceptual Framework
One of the language skills that must be mastered by foreign language learners is speaking or communicating using the target language. Students should
have good speaking skills to communicate ideas, knowledge and information in one’s mind to others and to respond others’ ideas based on certain contexts in
which the language is used. However, the fact has shown that it is quite difficult for Indonesian
learners to improve their English speaking ability, for example Indonesian learners in SMP N 3 Mertoyudan, because they usually use their native language
