INCREASING STUDENTS' SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH BOARD GAME AT SECOND GRADE OF SMPN 22 BANDARLAMPUNG
Abstract
Penilitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada i) peningkatan yang signifikan secara statistik dari prestasi berbicara siswa setelah diajar melalui permainan papan, ii) aspek berbicara apakah yang meningkat setelah diajar melalui permainan papan. Penilitian ini dilakukan di SMPN 22 Bandarlampung. Sampel penilitian ini adalah 20 siswa di kelas VIII B. Instrument yang digunakan untuk mendapatkan data dalam penilitian ini adalah tes berbicara yang dinilai oleh dua orang penilai. Pre-tes dan pos-tes dilakukan untuk mengumpulkan data sebelum dan sesudah implementasi permainan papan. Paired Sample T-Test digunakan untuk menganalisis data dan pengujian hipotesis dihitung menggunakan SPSS versi 16 pada tingkat signifikansi p <0.05. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan prestasi berbicara siswa yang signifikan secara statistik. Ini menunjukkan bahwa mengajar berbicara melalui permainan papan mendorong siswa untuk berbicara bahasa Inggris dengan cara yang lebih menyenangkan.
This study was aimed to find out whether there i) was a statistically significant increase of students’ speaking achievement after the students were taught through board games, ii) what aspects of speaking improved the most after the students were taught through board games. This research was conducted in SMPN 22 Bandarlampung. The subjects of this research were 20 students in class VIII B. The instrument used to get the data in this research was speaking test scored by two raters. Speaking tests in the forms of pre-test and post-test were employed to collect the data before and after implementation the board game. Paired Sample T-Test was used to analyze the data, and the hypothesis testing was computed using SPSS version 16 at the significance level of p <0.05. The result showed that there was a statistically significant increase of the students’ speaking achievement. This suggests that teaching speaking through board game encourages the students to speak English in more enjoyable way.
Keywords: Increasing, Speaking, Board Games.
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