The background of this study is based on phenomenon that students of second grade of MTs Al-Falah Wujil in the academic year of 2014/2015 their ability in speaking is still low and it needs to be improved. Some of them were still reluctant or even discourage to speak English because they didn’t have ideas to tell their past experiences. The use of photoes as media in teaching recount is expected to stimulate students’ ideas in speaking. They will be more interested, and also they get illustrationto express their idea in English.
The questions of this study can be stated as follow:
1. How is the implementation of personal photoes to stimulate students’ idea to tell their past experiences?
2. Can personal photoes stimulate students’ idea to tell their past experiences?
3. How is the improvement of students’ ability to tell their past experiences after being stimulated by personal photoes.
The result of this study shows that in the pre cycle, the students’ average score is 62.50. In the first cycle, the students’ average score is 70.36. From pre-cycle, first-cycle, and second-cycle the average of students’ score is always increasing. It means that there is an improvement of students’ recount speaking ability after being taught using photo. In conclusion, photo as media in teaching speaking can improve students’ recount speaking ability.
The use of photo as media to improve students recount speaking ability is also able to make students interested and motivated in learning process. The pictures made them more attracted give their attention, in edition,they unconsciously learn recount text.