facilitate learning. Pictures or images can be used in a multiplicity of ways to engage students to speak such as describing activity and story-telling.
B. Identification of the Problem
Many factors can contribute to the cause of students who had low ability in speaking. Those factors could come from the student and the teachers.
Some factors that come from the student include the lack of vocabulary, low motivation, and activities in the classroom.
Firstly, the students had lack of vocabulary, less-confidence, and low motivation in the speaking lesson. They spent their times with friends,
disturbed others, and did something unrelated to the lesson. Secondly, the students did not involve themselves actively in the class activities. They
easily got bored with the monotonous activity so that they began disturbing others classmates, felt sleepy, drew something in their books, etc.
Some factors that come from the teachers include the material given and the approachtechnique used. There are no course book, recordings, etc. The
teacher only used the LED projector to explain the materials so that there were no opportunities for the students to speak.
All those factors are related to each other. Students who had low motivation in speaking lesson might cause by unattractive material given by
teacher because the students got bored in the speaking learning process, and students who have less-confidence in the lesson might be the impact of the
inappropriate technique and media used by the teacher.
C. Delimitation of the Problem
As stated previously, there are many factors that cause the student to have low ability in speaking. However, the writer limits the problem of the
research to the technique used by the teacher, and in this case, using pictures as media. The writer limits the research for some reasons.
First, using pictures as media can dramatically increase the amount of talking for individual student while he practices his speaking ability. Second,
it lets students speak about something that is important to them. Third, it also gives them an opportunity to speak about something they know well, instead
of describing something that is new for them - thus building confidence in their own speaking ability.
D. Formulation of the Problem
