Improving students’ speaking performance through language board game at the eighth grade of SMPIT Permata Bunda

Hariyanto Hariyanto, Cucu Sutarsyah, Muhammad Sukirlan

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The objectives of the research are to find out whether there is significant difference of students’ speaking performance after they got treatment by using Language Board Game and Pair Dialogue, to find out aspects of speaking improve the most in both classes, and to find out the students’ response about Language Board Game. An experimental group was used in the research. The result showed that there was significant difference between students who were taught through Language Board Game and Pair Dialogue. The gain in the experimental class was 15.1334, while the control class was 10.9375. Besides that both techniques also affected the aspects of speaking especially in term of fluency aspects. The result of students’ response showed that 97.84 % give the positive response toward Language Board Game. It could be concluded that the Language Board Game was effective to improve students speaking performance.

Keywords: Language board game, pair dialogue, speaking performance.


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