The Use of Realia in Teaching Speaking

Abstract

The objectives of the reseach are to describe of realia in teaching speaking to the eighth grade students at SMPN 4 Poso Pesisir Utara and to find out students speaking achievement when taught using realia in describing. Design of this research descriptive qualitative. The subject where eighth grade students at SMPN 4 Poso Pesisir Utara, with total number of 18 students. Data were gathered by observation sheet and test. The findings of the research showed that the use realia in teaching speaking to the eight grade students in SMPN 4 Poso Pesisir Utara was done in three meetings, where watermelon was used in the first meeting to teach about description text, dictionary was used the second meeting to teach about description text, and people were in the third meeting to about teach monolog descriptive text. Realia in the learning process was used to help students to understand more on how to describe sometings. Before the realia was used students` showed poor achievement as shown by their average means score which was 32.0, and after the realia was used the students` average mean score was 53.3 or fair.

Keywords: realia, descriptive text