Abstract:
According to Tarigan(2008:16), speaking is the capability in
pronouncing sound or word to express or convey though, idea or feeling, opinion
and wish. Meanwhile, students find the difficulties in learning this skill. In this
case, the researcher intends to choose picture series as medium which can help
students to be more active to speak up.
The objective of the study is to find out whether picture series is effective
or not in teaching speaking of tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Karangkobar
Banjarnegara in the academic year 2013/2014. In this study, the researcher took
class X 6 which consists of 32 students as experimental group, and class X 4
which consists of 32 students as control group. The data is collected through
speaking test. To analyze the data, the researcher uses t-test.
The result of the mean score of the post-test of experimental group is
higher than the mean score of post-test of control group (75.88>64.62). In
addition, the result of t-value is 6.548. Then, the researcher consults the critical
value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha significance and the degree of freedom
is 2.000. It shows that t-value is higher than t-table (6.548>2.000). Therefore, the
hypothesis is accepted. It means that using picture series in teaching speaking of
the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Karangkobar Banjarnegara in the academic
year 2013/2014 is effective
