The Effectiveness of Simulation Board Game to Improve Speaking Skill in Descriptive Text to the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 2 Wonosobo 2015/2016

Abstract

This experimental research aims to find out if Simulation Board Game is more effective than Conventional Method to improve students’ speaking skill. Around sixty-six students of the tenth grades of SMA Negeri 2 Wonosobo, in academic year 2015/2016 participating in this research were categorized into two groups named experimental and control group. To make it easier to understand, the result was presented in the form of statistical data. Thepost-test score of both groups is quite far which is 75.12 for the experimental and 60.12 for the control group. In addition, the sig (2-tailed) of the T-test which is 0.000 explains that there is a significant difference between the students who are taught by using Board Game and those who are taught by using Conventional method. Furthermore, the N-gain score shows that the effectiveness of speaking skill with Board Game is at the medium level, while the effectiveness of speaking skill with Conventional method is at the low level. Based on the data analysis result of the research, it can be concluded that use of Board Game is more effective than the use of Conventional method to teach speaking skill to the students.

Keywords

• board game
• conventional method
• speaking skill