A SURVEY ON THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS IN LEARNING SPEAKING THROUGH PICTURE MEDIA AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA ROUDLOTUL MUTA’ALIMIN SIMBAR CLURING BANYUWANGI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

ABSTRACT
Shofia, M. 2020. A Survey On The Students’ Perceptions In Learning Speaking
Through Picture Media At The Eleventh Grade Students Of Ma Roudlotul
Muta’alimin Simbar Cluring Banyuwangi In Academic Year 2019/2020
Key Word: Perception, Speaking, Picture Media
Language is often considered as one of the most difficult aspects of
language learning. For most foreign language learners, English speaking is not
easy thing to be undertaken. Students need to be able to comprehend and produce
spoken and written texts which consist of four language skills: listening, speaking,
reading and writing. Among those four skills, speaking is seen as the most
difficult. Media to teach is important where it may give a significant impact in
teaching learning process, especially in teaching English skills that had been
conducted in some schools. One of a good media is pictures media may also
create an interesting situation in the classroom of using picture media in teaching
speaking skill.
The research questions in this research ask about the students
perceptions in learning speaking through picture media at the eleventh grade
students of MA Roudlotul Muta’alimin in academic year 2019/2020. And then for
the general aims in this research are to find out the students perceptions in
learning speaking through picture media at the eleventh grade students of MA
Roudlotul Muta’alimin in academic year 2019/2020. Furthermore, the aims can
particularly be formulated as follows is to know what students perceptions in
learning speaking through picture media.
This research was categorized as survey research with the descriptive
quantitative approach. The subject of this research is the eleventh grade students
of MA Roudlotul Muta’alimin in academic year 2019/2020 as the participants
totally 18 students. The questionnare was used to collected the data about students
perceptions in learning speaking through picture media. And documentation was
used to collected a description of the school and respondent.
And the result is the eleventh graders of MA Roudlotul Muta’alimin
Simbar Banyuwangi had high integrative motivation to develop English speaking.
They also had a high expectation that picture media could help them develop their
English speaking skill. They also “strongly agreed” and “agreed” that English
speaking mastery will help them to be more confident and courageous in speaking
English, express their idea and motivate themselves even reached more than 80%.
The response more than 85% of them “strongly agreed” and “agreed” that their
mastery of English speaking will able to motivate themself to improve their ability
to speak in English and make it easier for them to talk about anything in English
by using picture media. In addition, the teacher also has an interesting method in
learning English and often to use picture media in learning English.