THE USE OF BOARD GAME STRATEGY TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI BOLAN IN THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 2021/2022

Abstract

This research is about The Use of Board Game Strategy to Improve Speaking Skill of Twelfth Grade Students of SMA Negeri Bolan in the School Year of 2021/2022. There were some problems faced by the students at SMA Negeri Bolan in speaking English such as: 1. Most of students were not able to speak English with good pronunciation. 2. The students were not able to respond when teacher ask them in English. 3. Most of them were not able to speak English fluently 4. They were lacked of vocabulary 5. The students were not able to speak English using good grammar 6. They did not understand teachers’ explanation. The aims of this research were to find out: 1. How board game strategy improve students speaking skill and 2. How far the board game strategy improve students’ speaking skill. This research was a classroom action research. The research subject was the twelfth grade students of SMAN Bolan, consisted of 19 students, 15 females and 4 males. The instruments of this research were speaking test and its scoring system and observation checklist. The research was conducted in two cycles which included plan, action, observation, reflection and evaluation. The result of this research showed that there was an improvement of students’ speaking skill using board game in two cycles. In the pre-test and post-test showed the significance improvement too. It could be concluded that board game can improve students’ speaking skill.