Improving Students’ Speaking Skill by Using Board Game at One Year Program Class in Satnusa Padang Academic Year 2008/2009

From her observation and experience to teach English in Satnusa Padang, the researcher admitted that students have low in speaking skill. There were some problems faced by the students in speaking. Firstly, the students did not have confidence to speak English, so they never practice and always use mother tongue in the classroom. Secondly, they were shy to speak if their friends laugh at them when they make error in pronunciation and grammar. Thirdly, they had lack of vocabularies. To solve this problem, the researcher conducted a classroom action research. The purpose of this research is to find out whether Board Game can better improve the students’ speaking skill at the second semester of one year program of Satnusa Padang. This research had three cycles. Each cycle had four meetings. So, all meetings are twelve. The researcher collected the data by using task, test, observation and interview. The average score of the first cycle was a little improvement. It was caused that they were not familiar in playing board game. The result of the third cycle was good improvement in speaking. From the research result, it was found that the students’ speaking skill by using board game could better improve than their speaking skill before the research was conducted. Through the observation, the researcher found that the average score of the first cycle improved from 47,92 to the second cycle 51,94 and the third cycle improve to 63,91. In short, board game could improve the students’ speaking skill at Semester two of One Year Program of Satnusa Padang.