Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews eISSN: 2395-6518, Vol 8, No 1, 2020, pp 344-358 https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.8145 344 |www.hssr.in © Aziz and Dewi THE USE OF POWERPOINT AS MEDIA OF LANGUAGE TEACHING ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL Imam Nur Aziz 1 , Yuli Ani Setyo Dewi 2* 1 Institut Keislaman Abdullah Faqih Gresik, Indonesia, 2 Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Tarbiyah NU Al Hikmah Mojokerto, Indonesia. Email: 1 imamnuraziz@gmail.com, 2* yulianisetyo85@gmail.com Article History: Received on 15 th December 2019, Revised on 26 th December 2019, Published on 26 th January 2020 Abstract Purpose of the study: Powerpoint is one of the communication tools which used to presenting learning material, and this article aims to know the use of PowerPoint as media that can improve students’ speaking skill. Methodology: The researcher uses the Pre-experimental method one group Pretest-Posttest design by regulating pretest to measure the subordinate variable, test treatment, and regulating posttest. Main Findings: The result shows that posttest frequency is higher than pretest frequency by compering median 12.6> 12.2. it means that PowerPoint provides video, audio, animation, slideshow, etc. can improve students’ speaking skills. Applications of this study: The population in this research are all of the students of MA Al-Asyhar Bungah Gresik with 20 social learners and 23 science learners class. Novelty/Originality of this study: Media makes the students more understand, the instructor must prepare the exciting material, by using interesting media it helps students more understand. Because the use of media will stimulate students' understanding, the teacher can use interested and straightforward media which can make them focus on the material. Keywords: Educational Technology, CALL, Learning, Media, PowerPoints, Language Teaching. INTRODUCTION Mastering communication ability is the main point of learning a foreign language, mainly the English language, as language France in this world (Aziz & Dewi, 2019a ). Learning English communication should give a chance to the learner to practice their ability. Therefore, the educator must provide the learners' opportunity to practice their speaking skills (Kuśnierek, 2015 ). The educator is one of reason in increasing students’ performance and competence (Aziz & Dewi, 2019b ). Teachers can be difficulty conveying the materials and there is no creative impression without it. Most of them still use traditional media such as visual aids, pictures, books and other media that give real experience. Attractive media which is not monotonous and matches the teacher's ability will inflict students’ knowledge. Speaking is considered as essential language skills because having excellent expertise in English is one of the substantiations of mastering English (Aziz & Dewi, 2019a ; Baidawi, 2016 ). So, speaking educator should identify and describe all the learners' activities to increase motivation, practice, technique and also their assessment. Besides, to teach speaking skills requires activities drafting that not only lets the learners to practice oral language but also focuses on linguistics and learning strategy (Goh, 2016 ; Hughes & Reed, 2016 ; Pakula, 2019 ). By media, every foreign instructor feels assisted in teaching the English language. They also can simplify their material in the teaching process. Harmer clarifies that English educators must keep the fabric as straightforward as conceivable and coherent (Harmer, 2001) . Teachers give relevant material which knowledge must be as real as the existence of the thing. So, the use of media in learning is essential to transfer any knowledge. Facilitators also must be mindful of an assortment of fabric accessible for moving forward students' dialect ability. The present-day computer has risen after the Second World War may be a common reason machine that can be adjusted to modern purposes through programming and peripherals (Rockwell & Mactavish, 2004 ). Peripherals of computers include the mouse, keyboard, monitor, CPU, etc. Numerous individuals work it to form a report, preparing an introduction, make a record or maybe utilize for play an amusement. Today's individual computer can handle all these media with the fitting peripherals, making interactive media advancement and utilization accessible to the domestic client (Rockwell & Mactavish, 2004 ). Comparable in nature preparing restrictions of working memory speak to a major calculate impacting the viability of human learning and execution, especially in complex situations that require concurrent execution of different assignments (Kalyuga, 2009 ). To process the students' memory to be a good performance in the environments, where the teacher must give an example that also good. Like the media that use to convey the matter, it must be suitable for education, especially for students. So that needs to use the match media to make it well. With the development of science and technology, English teachers need to have the ability to integrating technology into the classroom (Bartolomé, 2017 ). Educators should process the competency of students' improvements to meet the demands of lifelong learning. Several teachers use recommendations; pedagogical, social, managerial and technical