.Improving Students’ Speaking Ability of the Third Year Students of Accountant by Using Video at SMK Nurul Falah Pekanbaru.

Students in the researcher class failed to reach the KKM of speaking ability. They were 32 students of the third year students of Accountant 1 of SMK Nurul Falah Pekanbaru. Therefore, the purposes of carrying out this research were to find out to what extent using video can improve the students‘ speaking ability and to explain the factors that influence the changes of their speaking ability during the use of video. This research was carried out in the design of classroom action research that involved planning, action, observation, and reflection-, for two cycles. In every cycle, a collaborator helped the researcher to collect qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were collected by using observation sheets for the researcher and the students. Besides, field notes and interview were also used to collect the qualitative data that out of the observation sheets. Then, the quantitative data were collected by speaking tests. The quantitative data were analyzed by calculating to find out mean for describing improvement of each indicator of speaking in each cycle. The qualitative data were analyzed through reading/memoing, describing, classifying, and interpreting. The results of quantitative analysis were related to the results of qualitative analysis in order to explain the factors that cause the improvement qualitatively. After carrying out this research for two cycles, the results of the research for 2 cycles showed that Video improved all indicators of speaking ability. Besides, it was also found that the factors influencing the changes of the students‘ speaking ability during the use of video were media, materials and the students‘ speaking motivation. Therefore, these identified factors should be considered when using video to improve students‘ speaking ability.