EFEKTIVITAS PENGGUNAAN SERI GAMBAR UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PRESTASI BERBICARA SISWA DALAM TEKS NARATIF UNTUK KELAS SEBELAS JASA BOGA 2 DI SMK NEGERI 1 TARAKAN
ABSTRACT Yemima Kristiani. 2020. The Effectiveness of Using Picture Series to Improve Students’ Speaking Achievement in Narrative Text for XI Grade Jasa Boga 2 at SMK Negeri 1 Tarakan. (Advisor by Romlah Ulfaika, M. Pd). The aim of this research was to find the significant effect of Picture Series to improve students’ speaking achievement in xi grade of SMK Negeri 1 Tarakan. This research was pre-experiment. In this research, the researcher tried to find out the differences before and after being taught using Picture Series. The sample of this research was students in 11 Jasa Boga 2 class which consisted of 27 students at SMK Negeri 1 Tarakan in academic years of 2019/2020. The instrument was picture series that included pretest and posttest. Besides that, the researcher used descriptive analysis, hypothesis testing, and paired samples test for analyzed the statistically. The research result showed that there was different mean score between pretest and posttest. It was proven by the result of the students’ mean score. They were 59.00 in pretest and 75.92 in the posttest. It means that the improvement of the students’ mean score was 16.92. It can be seen that the improvement of students’ mean score in the posttest was higher than pretest and it indicated that there was significant difference from students’ speaking score between pretest and posttest. The result of paired sample test showed that t-test computation was 13.157 higher than t-table (2.056). So, 13.157 > 2.056 it means Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. As the conclusion, picture series were effective to improve students’ speaking achievement eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 Tarakan by using picture series. Key Word : Speaking Achievement, Picture Series.