THE EFFECT OF USING BOARD GAMES ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT EIGHTH GRADE STUDENT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find the effect of using board games on students' speaking ability. The research was a pre-experimental with one group pretest and post-test design. The total of population was 49 students of the eighth grades student junior high school in Batam. There were 29 student selected as the sample. The sample was selected using a simple random sampling technique. The researcher collected the data using speaking test that was applied as a pretest and posttest. The data were then calculated using a computer program, SPSS 20. For the normality test, the researcher took the results according to Shapiro-Wilk. The result showed whether the data was normally distributed. To determine the effect of using board games on students' speaking ability, the researcher analyzed the scores of the pretest and posttest, using the paired-sample T-test, and took the significant value of sig. (2-tailed) from the calculated result using SPSS 20. The results showed that the significant value sig. (2-tailed) was smaller than 0.05 = (0.000 <0.05). Therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected and the alternative hypothesis of this study is accepted. In conclusion, there is a significant effect of using board games on students' speaking ability.

Keywords: effect, board games and speaking ability.