The Use of Pop-Up Cards to Improve the Seventh Grade Students‟ Speaking Achievement at a Junior High School

Abstract

This classroom action research focused on using pop-up cards to improve the seventh-grade students‟ speaking achievement at a junior high school. The research was conducted from December 17th, 2019 to January 13th, 2020 at SMP Negeri 2 Jember. The research participants were the students of class VII F. This class was chosen because it had the lowest mean score on the speaking pre-test (72). Besides, the results of the observation also showed that this class was passive during the English lesson. Further, the English teacher also informed that the students of class VIII F had the difficulties in learning speaking because they lack vocabulary and grammar, and they were passive in English teaching and learning process.