DEVELOPING FLASHCARD AS A MEDIA TO TEACH SPEAKING FOR SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT MTS AL-WASHLIYAH KOLAM

The study aimed to develop learning media in Speaking Descriptive Text for
Grade VII of Junior High School Students. This study used Research and
Development (R&D) design through six stages; gathering information and data,
analyzing data, designing materials, validating by experts, revising, and final
product. The subject of the study was Grade VII of MTs Al-Washliyah Kolam.
The instruments of data collection were gathered by administring interview and
distributing questionnaire. The study was conducted by interviewing the English
teacher and distributing questionnaire to 30 respondents to get the students’ needs.
The interview and questionnaire results proved that the students need English
learning media which can motivate the students to understand about speaking
descriptive text. The product had been validated by the experts namely English
lecturer and English teacher. The product result was Flashcard which is
modifying to playing game based on the rules game. The result of experts’
validation showed that the media was an appropriate media to be used on
speaking descriptive text by getting the average percentage 95% categorized
excellent.