The Use of Board Game Media in Teaching Speaking (an Experimental Study on Second Grade of SMAN 1 Kluet Tengah)

ABSTRACT This study was aimed to know the effect of using Board Game Media in teaching English speaking to promote students’ speaking ability and motivation, also to know the students’ attitude toward the implementation of board game media in teaching speaking at SMAN 1 Kluet Tengah Manggamat, South Aceh. This research is pre-experimental research. This research only need one class as an object with five meeting in implementation the board game media. The data collection techniques were performance based test before and after the treatment, and the questionnaire. Based on the quantitative data, the students’ speaking score for each indicator was increased. The average score of pretest is 11.44, and the average score of posttest is 17.39. It shows that the posttest’s mean is higher than the pretest’s mean. The result show there was a positive effect of students’ speaking ability through using Board Game media. Based on questionnaires answer, the result of the research showed that the use of board game media in teaching speaking has many positive effects to the students, such as :the students are more motivated in learning; more skillful because the interest of learning increases; easy to understand the material; giving the opportunity to all students to get a fair turn in practicing the material; eliminate boredom in learning; encourage the idea of new ideas; facilitate students in remembering and practice the material in daily life. They also learn enthusiastically in teaching learning activities. they showed positive attitude toward the implementation of board game media. Keywords: speaking skill, board game media