Speaking ability is an important aspect and beneficial skill in learning language, it is a part of the goal or skill in learning English in the curriculum besides writing, reading, and listening. Through speaking, people convey what they mean by arranging a set of words which contain a subject talked about and the situation. But some people including language learners think that speaking is difficult. However, some language learners are not interested in speaking lesson. One of the reasons is the teacher doesn’t give them an interesting activity. To make them interested and easy to catch what the teacher teaches, the teacher should give them interesting activities because speaking will be easy if it is always practiced. When they practice it in real situation, it means that they don’t need to imagine, they can see, hear, feel the situation directly. It will make materials be more memorable. Thus, in this research, the researcher used realia to improve students’ speaking ability, because realia is real object that can be used as a medium in teaching learning process and most of students are interested in it.
The objectives of this research were to describe the implementation of realia to improve students’ speaking ability in procedure text and to identify the improvement of the students’ speaking ability in procedure text.
The subjects of this research were the ninth grade of students MTs.Mathalibul Huda Mlonggo Jepara in the academic year of 2010/2011. The number of the subjects was 44 students. This research was a classroom action research. The process of this research was conducted in three stages, including cycle 1, cycle 2, and cycle 3. The data were collected by using observation guide in order to know the events in the classroom during teaching learning process. Besides that, she also used test to get the students’ score, in order to know the improvement of students’ ability in speaking from their score. The data were analyzed by using quantitative analysis.
In this research, the researcher used kinds of realia. In the first cycle, the researcher used candles, match and candle holder. Then, in second cycle she used water faucet, soap and towel. In third cycle, she used pencils and sharpener.
The result of research shows that realia used in teaching speaking procedure text with the ninth grade of students MTs Mathalibul Huda Jepara in The Academic Year of 2010/2011 can improve students’ speaking ability. This successfulness can be seen from the result of students’ average score and good responses by students. The result after getting all of the treatment using realia, the students’ average score increased in line with the increase of the students’ achievement in each cycle. Before getting the treatment students’ average score was 4.3, and after giving treatment was 6.8, so it increased 2.4.the average score of students in the first cycle was 4.9, second cycle was 5.2, and the third cycle was 6.8.
Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that by using realia in teaching speaking, teacher can improve students’ ability in speaking. And it is hoped that it can be valuable as the information resource for students, teachers, and the researcher herself.