IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PROFICIENCY BY USING SPEAKING BOARD GAMES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT EDUPRANA LANGUAGE COURSE PALANGKARAYA KALIMANTAN TENGAH

Abstract

There are so many techniques which can be implemented by teachers in
order to support teaching learning process. Some techniques are also useful
for improving students’ speaking proficiency. In Eduprana Language
Course, which offer Speak Out program for the young learners, the methods
in practicing speaking mostly used role-play method. In this method,
students are required to practice conversation based on the situations that
are provided in module learnt. This method, somehow, make the practice of
speaking be boring and monotone. In order to solve this problem, the
teachers are required to be more creative so the class atmosphere be more
interesting and students be more creative in speaking. The usage of game in
teaching learning process has been known can give positive impact for
learning experiences. So, in this study, the writer tried to implement the
usage of speaking board games in order as an effort of improving students’
speaking proficiency. The method of this study is class actions research,
where in this study there are two cycles that are being conducted. The result
of the study showed significant increasing point of pre-test and post-test of
four variables in this study; vocabulary 2.51 to 3.11, pronunciation 2.41 to
3.16, grammar 2.65 to 3.00, fluency 2.66 to 3.13. So, it can be concluded
that; 1) it is important to provide activities which engage the students’
participation in the speaking activities and give them more chance to speak,
such as playing board games which attracts the students’ attention and
make them enthusiastic to join the lesson. 2) Playing board games engaged
the students to speak up. When the students were playing the games, all
of them had the same proportion to speak.

Keywords: Speaking proficiency, board game, language course