The Use of Guessing Game Strategy to Increase Student's Speaking Skill at the Eighth Grade of MTs Nurul Amin Sumberejo Besuki Situbondo in 2020/2021 Academic Year

Miftahul Arifin, Miftah (2022) The Use of Guessing Game Strategy to Increase Student's Speaking Skill at the Eighth Grade of MTs Nurul Amin Sumberejo Besuki Situbondo in 2020/2021 Academic Year. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Speaking Skill at Eighth Grade of Mts Nurul Amin Sumberejo Besuki Situbondo in Academic Year 2020/2021
Key Words: Guessing Game Strategy, speaking skill
Speaking is one of English skill that should be mastered by the students. However, some problems of speaking were faced by students, one of them was they feel shy to speak English because they are afraid to make some mistakes while they speak by using English. Therefore, the English teacher used guessing game strategy in teaching and learning speaking at eighth grade of MTs Nurul Amin Sumberejo Besuki Situbondo as the effort to speak English.
The focused of this research was how can guessing game strategy increase the students’ speaking skill at the eighth grade of MTs Nurul Amin Sumberejo Besuki Situbondo in 2020/2021 academic year?.
This research was conducted at class VIII A of MTs Nurul Amin Sumberejo Besuki Situbondo. This research was Classroom Action Research (CAR) using Kemmish and Mc Taggart model which consisted of four steps, namely planning the action, implementing the action, observing and reflecting. In this research, the researcher conducted two cycles. Each consisted of three meetings, two meetings to implement the action and one meeting for students’ speaking test or post test. In planning the action, the researcher and collabolator prepared lesson plan based on the data from preliminary study which refers to the problem found. Furthemore, in implementing the action, the researcher taught the students by using Guessing Game Strategy. Next, observing was the process of collecting the data from the implementation, the researcher and collaborator observed all of the classroom activities during the implementation of the action. The last was reflecting, in this process the researcher and collaborator analyzed the data from observing the action and compared with the criteria of succes which 75% of students have to reach the target score that was 75. The subject of this research was the class VIII A of MTs Nurul Amin Besuki Situbondo that consisted of twenty-two students.
The result of this research showed that there was improvement of the students’ speaking skill. It could be seen from the result of the post-test I and II that been improved. From 7 of 22 (32%) students who achieved the minimum score in pre-test became 11 of 22 (50%) students in post-test I, then 17 of 22 (77,8%) in post-test II. It can be conclouded that Guessing Game Strategy can make students’ speaking skill better than before.

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