An Analysis of Seventh Grade Students’ Speaking Ability In Expressing Greeting and Apologizing by UsingPictures at SMPN 4 Lubuk Alung.Thesis. English Department, the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Bung Hatta University

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Speaking is one the language skills to express feeling or ideas to someone. It is a productive skill to present one’s idea orally. Speaking involves daily life activities such as expressing greeting and apologizing. Junior high school students should be able to express greeting and apologizing in speaking. Relating to this, the research aimed at describe students’ speaking ability of seventh grade in expressing greeting and apologizing by using pictures at SMPN 4 Lubuk Alung.  

The design of this research was a descriptive research. The population of this research was seventh grade students at SMPN 4 Lubuk Alung. The sample was the students at class VII-3. They were chosen by using simple random sampling technique. The data were collected through speaking test. To make the test reliable, the researcher used inter-rater method. It means that there were two scorers to check the students’ speaking recording. The correlation coefficients of two scores was 0.95. It means that the test was reliable.

In general, the result of data analysis showed that the students’ speaking ability in  expressing greeting and apologizing by using pictures at SMPN 4 Lubuk Alung was bad. It found that (65%) students got bad ability. Specifically, the result of the research showed that the students’ speaking ability in expressing greeting was good. It was proved by finding that (54%) students had good ability, and the students’ speaking ability to express apologizing was bad, it was proved by finding that (54%) students got bad ability.

Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that seventh grade students’ speaking ability in expressing greeting and apologizing by using pictures at SMPN 4 Lubuk Alung was bad. Therefore, the teachers are suggested to improve students’ speaking ability in speaking, and the students’ are suggested to do more practices to improve their speaking ability.

Key words : Speaking, ability, greeting, apologizing, picture.