The use of films as media to improve students’ narrative speaking (MTs al-Hidayah NU 03 Kendal in the academic year of 2010/2011)

The background of this study is based on phenomenon that IIB Class students’ of MTs Al-Hidayah NU 03 Kendal in the academic year of 2010/2011 ability in speaking needs to be improved. Some of them were still lazy or even discourage to speak English because they don’t have enough idea of what to speak. The use of films as media in teaching narrative is expected to activate students’ imagination. So that they will have something to speak. Thus, it will give positive outcome toward the problem. The purpose of this study can be stated as follow: (1) To describe the teaching narrative speaking using film that is implemented to improve students’ speaking skill at IIB class of MTs Al Hidayah NU 03 Kendal in the academic year of 2010/2011. (2) To identify the improvement of students’ narrative speaking after being taught using film. This is a classroom research. The object of this study is the IIB class of MTs Al-Hidayah NU 03 Kendal in the academic year of 2010/2011. The methods of collecting data are using test and observation. Meanwhile, a statistical analysis and interpretation are applied to analyze the data of this study. The result of this study shows that In the pre cycle, the students’ average score is 49.76. In the first cycle, the students’ average score is 61.78. It means that there is a progress of students’ achievement after being taught using films. In the second cycle, the students’ average score was 68.69. It could be seen that there is a continuing progress of using films to teach narrative. By using the different format like jigsaw, discussion, the researcher was able to improve the students’ speaking ability because they became easier to express what they are going to say based on the prompt from the researcher. The presence of films as media to improve students narrative speaking had given a significant progress toward their speaking ability. Since they were never taught by using films, the presence of this research also gave the students new perspective that they could also relate the material to their hobby like movie, music, etc