PICTURE STRIPS AS THE SPEAKING SKILL ENHANCER IN TEACHING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE WITH SUGGESTION

Abstract

This article discusses the use of picture strips for encouraging students in their speaking skill of conditional sentence with suggestion. As the researcher’s has experienced, some teachers were still using an old-schooled technique by translating the language. It is not a fault but, the problem was some students were able to answer the questions of conditional sentence, but they were not able to produce any sentence related to the case or context. Meanwhile, the other students even only focused on conditional sentence’s types.The writer focused his experiment in using the picture strip as the part of the famous communicative approach for the solution of the problem. Based on the simple experimental study which was done in 12 Grade of vocational high school, picture scripts were able to succeed students in 100% of completion in producing conditional sentence with suggestion based on the given cases. The researcher hoped that this brief and simple study would give a bold contribution in Teaching English as the Second Language field.