Abstract :
Speaking is one of the language skills that demands students to express their idea.
In teaching speaking to the elementary the attractive technique is necessary.
Considering that fun is needed to make the students comfortable in expressing
their idea, the use of board game is applicable. There are some benefits in
teaching speaking using games; interesting, enjoyable and motivating. Puzzles
and games are obvious types of self-mpotivating material. They have strong
appeal to elementary school students.
This quantitive study reports a research conducted in fifth year of SD Al Azhar 1
bandar Lampung to find out whether there is significant improvement of the
students’ speaking ability taught through board game. In doing so, the researcher
used one group pretest postest design. The population of the research was the fifth
year of SD al Azhar 1 Bandar Lampung. The sample was taken randomly trhough
lottery. To collect the data, pretest and posttest were administered. There were two
raters to judge students’ speaking ability. Repeated measure T-Test was used to
analyze the data and the hypothesis testing was computed using SPSS version 18
at the significance level of p<0.05.
The results of the research show that there is significant improvement of SD Al
Azhar Students’ speaking ability taught through board game. The Hypothesis
testing showed that the mean scores of experimental class increased significantly
from pretest to posttest (p<0.05;p= 0.00). Referring to the result above, it can be
concluded that board game is applicable to improve students’ speaking ability.