USING SERIAL PICTURES TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS

This research aims to know whether or not the use of Serial Pictures can improve the speaking skill of the second-year students of SMP Negeri 12 Palu. One group pre-experimental research design was used in this research. It consisted of an experimental group only without control group. The population is the second-year students of SMP Negeri 12 Palu and the samples are class VIII B that selected by using total sampling technique. The instrument of collecting data is test that is pretest and posttest. Regarding to the result of the data, it shows that the mean score of pretest is 32.4. Furthermore, the posttest’s mean score is 62.9. T-counted is 3.2, while the t-table is 1.074. Hence, the hypothesis is accepted and it means that the use of Serial Pictures can improve the speaking skill of the second year students of SMP Negeri 12 Palu. Keywords: Improving; Speaking Skill; Serial Picture