This study aimed to determine the improvement of teacher activities, student activities, and students' speaking skills through the use of picture card media in Indonesian language learning on the topic of words with multiple meanings. This research was a Classroom Action Research (CAR) conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection stages. The subjects of the study were 33 students. Data were collected through observations of teacher activities, student activities, and students' speaking skills. Speaking skills were assessed based on five aspects: pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The results showed that teacher activities increased from 82.50% in Cycle I to 93.75% in Cycle II, representing an increase of 11.25%. Student activities increased from 86.54% in Cycle I to 92.31% in Cycle II, representing an increase of 5.77%. Meanwhile, students' speaking skills increased from 65.76% in Cycle I, categorized as fair, to 87.27% in Cycle II, categorized as very good, representing an increase of 21.51%. Classical mastery in Cycle II reached 100%, exceeding the predetermined success criterion of 81%. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the use of picture card media can improve students' speaking skills in Indonesian language learning on the topic of words with multiple meanings.
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