Exploring Audio Visual Media in Improving Students’ Speaking Ability (A Study at Department of English Language Education UIN Ar-Raniry)

Audio Visual Media could make language input become more comprehensible. It can be used as language learning materials for foreign language learner. Audio Visual Media does not only arouse students’ desire and motivation in learning but also create the learning process become more concrete and meaningful. This study focused on improving students’ speaking ability by Exploring Audio Visual Media in teaching learning process. This research was conducted at Department of English Language Education of UIN Ar-Raniry at 2nd semester of 2016 involving 31 students as the samples. The method applied in this research was experimental research by using quantitative approach. The data was obtained through giving pre-test and post-test, experimental teaching, and distributing questionnaire. This study compared mean average between pre-test and post-test and found out students’ response toward Audio Visual Media. Furthermore, the result shows that teaching speaking by exploring Audio Visual Media does not give the effect on students’ speaking ability. Even though the mean score of post-test showed slightly higher than post-test,which mean score of pre-test was 69,40 and the mean score of post-test was 70,2, the effectiveness was rejected after examining the hypotheses. It showed in ttest calculation where t0 (0.73) ¬was lower than ttest (1.7), it means that Audio Visual Media does not play the role in improving student’s speaking ability at Department of Language Education UIN Ar-Raniry. However, the result of questionnaire reveals that the students had a positive response towards Audio Visual Media in teaching speaking.
Key Words: Audio Visual Media and Speaking Ability