Based on the explanation on the two sub-chapters above, the writer wanted to conduct the research under the following limitation. Firstly, the writer focused the use comic among various well known techniques of using media in teaching English. Secondly, the writer stressed the use of comic in order to see its influence to students’ speaking ability. In using comic, it can be chosen the simple comic as media because it is a kind of easier and cheaper type. It made easy in preparing the media.
The writer limited the research at the second year students of SMP N 1 VII Koto Sungai Sariak as the source of data. The reason was that they have been trained to speak in class of English.