This research attempted to know about the use picture in teaching speaking
and to kniw about the students’ speaking progress after implementing picture in
teaching speaking to junior high school students. The method of reasearch study was
qualitative interview. The participant of this research is students and teacher of junior
high school. Picture can motivate the students to learn English and it can help the
teacher to make them interest and enjoy to learn especially speaking it is expected
that the students can icresase their speaking. Moreover, picture can also be used to
stimulate the students’ imagination and to motivate them in learning English.
Especially in seaking progress
The research design used was a qualitative descriptive design. The research
subject were 7 grade students and 7 grade English teacher at MTS Islamic Boarding
School Darul Ilmi. In this study the reaches use two instruments; observation, and
interview.
The results showed that teachers often use picture in learning. When students
feel bored whit the lesson and find it difficult to understand the meterial easily. And
the students respoonse was very good, they felt happy and it was easy to understand
the material, also they were more active in speaking english in class even though they
still used their mother tongue. The pictures used are; (1). Picture of individual
persons and of individual objects (2). Picture of situations (3). A series of picture on
one chart.