IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE GAMES FOR THE GRADE VIII STUDENTS OF MTS N NGEMPLAK

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The objective of this research is to improve the students’ speaking skills through communicative games for the grade VIII students of MTs N Ngemplak. The communicative games implemented were a survey game, a ‘Lifeboat Debate’ game, a role play: making a telephone conversation, and a ‘Lie Detector’ game. This study is classroom action research. It was conducted in MTs N Ngemplak. The subjects of this research were the VIII B students of MTs N Ngemplak. The types of the data were quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data were obtained from tests and they were in the form of students’ scores. Meanwhile, the qualitative data were collected through classroom observation and interviews. This research was conducted systematically following the four moments of action research named planning, action, observing and reflecting. The actions brought good improvement to students’ speaking skills. Their vocabulary mastery increased. They also produced less mispronunciation. The activities conducted were various and challenging for the students as well. The atmosphere in the classroom made students get involved in the activities. Moreover, communicative games made everyone in the classroom enjoy learning English. The class was more alive as the activities were carried out successfully with everyone actively participating. The improvement was proven by the results of classroom observation, interviews and students’ test scores. Their post-test scores were higher than their pre-test scores. The mean of pre-test scores was 48.18, while the mean of post test scores was 75.6. The difference of both means was 27.42. It showed that students’ speaking skills were improved.

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