THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BOARD GAME IN IMPROVING STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILL

Anggi Ananda Putri, Tuntun Sinaga, Muhammad Sukirlan

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Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada perbedaan signifikan pada kemampuan siswadalam berbicara teks recount antara sebelum dan setelah penerapan board game. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Sampel penelitian ini adalah 35 siswa tingkat pertama SMAN 7 Bandar Lampung. Test berbicara digunakan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa ada perbedaan kemampuan siswa dalam berbicara teks recount setelah penerapan board game dengan tingkat signifikansi p<0.05 (p=0.00). Dengan ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa teknik board game dapat membantu siswadalam meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam berbicara.

Abstract. This study was aimed at finding out whether there was a statistically significant difference of students speaking ability of recount texts before and after the implementation of the board game. This research was a quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 35 students at the first year of SMAN 7 Bandar Lampung. The speaking test was administered as the instrument of this research. The result showed that there was a statistically significant difference of the students speaking ability after the implementation of board game with the significant level of p<0.05 (p=0.00). This suggests that speaking through board game facilitates the students to improve their speaking ability.

Keywords: board game, recount text, speaking


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