improving students' speaking ability using the snakes and ladders board game at 11 grade of saint

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PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY
USING THE SNAKES AND LADDERS BOARD GAME
AT 11th GRADE OF SAINT PIUS X VOCATIONAL HIGH
SCHOOL MAGELANG

A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN THESIS

Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
to Obtain Sarjana Pendidikan Degree
in English Language Education

By
Agnes Ambar Pratiwi Bayuningsih
Student Number: 111214006

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY
YOGYAKARTA
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DEDICATION

O gentle lover of my heart in your suffering
give me part, Love’s burning flame in me
release that to the world I servant be, In ever
growing strength and care until eternal life I
share. Amen. (EG.39)

................. I dedicate it to my beloved CB Sisters............

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ABSTRACT

Bayuningsih, Agnes Ambar Pratiwi.(2016). Improving Students’ Speaking
Ability Using the Snakes and Ladders Board Game at 11th Grade of of Saint
Pius X Vocational High School Magelang.
Yogyakarta: English Language Education Study Programme, Sanata Dharma
University.

Speaking is one of the four language skills. Speaking skill is considered as
a difficult subject for the 11th grade of St.Pius X Vocational High School
Magelang. Some students were silent during the speaking activity even some
students were using Bahasa Indonesia. Therefore, the research was aimed to
improve students‟ speaking ability using the Snakes and Ladders board game.
In conducting the research, the researcher applied the snakes and ladders
board games to improve the students‟ speaking ability at 11th grade of Cookery
Department of St.Pius X Vocational High School Magelang. The formulated
problem of this study is how the snakes and ladders board game improve the
students‟ speaking ability at 11th grade of Cookery Department of St.Pius X
Vocational High School Magelang.
The research employed classroom action research. There were 38
participants of this study from class of Cookery Department 1 of St.Pius X
Vocational High School Magelang. The research was conducted in two cycles.
The first cycle was conducted in three meetings and the second one was
conducted in two meetings. The reseacher obtained two major data analysis;
qualitative data analysis and descriptive statistics.
The action research result showed that the use of the Snakes and Ladders
board game had improved the students‟ speaking ability. The significant
improvement could be seen from speaking test result from cycle 1 to cycle 2
where the result of the students‟ mean score was increased from 69.5 to 79.2.
Using the Snakes and Ladders board game becomes an appropriate method to
improve students‟ speaking ability.

Key words : classroom action research, the Snakes and Ladders board game,
speaking ability.

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ABSTRAK

Bayuningsih, Agnes Ambar Pratiwi.(2016). Improving Students’ Speaking
Ability Using the Snakes and Ladders Board Game at 11th Grade of Saint
Pius X Vocational High School Magelang.
Yogyakarta: English Language Education Study Programme, Sanata Dharma
University.

Berbicara merupakan salah satu dari empat ketrampilan berbahasa.
Kemampuan berbicara dipadang sebagai hal yang sulit bagi siswa kelas 11, SMK
PIUS X Magelang. Beberapa siswa diam ketika diminta untuk berbicara, bahkan
beberapa diantaranya memilih menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia. Oleh karena itu,
penelitian ini ditujukan untuk mengembangkan kemampuan siswa dalam
berbicara menggunakan permainan ular tangga.
Dalam proses penelitian, peneliti memilih permainan ular tangga untuk
mengembangkan kemampuan berbicara siswa kelas 11 SMK Pius X Magelang.
Persoalannya, bagaimana permainan ular tangga dapat meningkatkan
kemampuan berbicara siswa kelas 11 SMK Pius X Magelang.
Penelitian menggunakan metode penelitian tindakan kelas. Terdapat 38
responden dalam proses penelitian ini yang diambil dari kelas jurusan Tata Boga
1, SMK Pius X Magelang. Penelitian dilakukan dalam dua siklus. Siklus pertama
dilakukan dalam tiga kali pertemuan dan siklus kedua dilakukan dalam dua kali
pertemuan. Peneliti pun mendapatkan dua analisa data mayor; analisa data
kualitatif dan pemaparan statistik.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan permainan ular tangga
telah mengembangkan kemampuan bicara para siswa. Perkembangan yang
signifikan dapat dilihat dari hasil tes berbicara antara siklus 1 dan siklus 2.
Hasilnya, rata-rata nilai kemampuan bericara mereka meningkat dari 69,5
menjadi 79,2. Penggunaan permainan ular tangga menjadi metode yang tepat
dan sesuai untuk mengembangkan kemampuan berbicara para siswa.

Kata Kunci : penelitian tindakan kelas, permainan ular tangga, kemampuan berbicara.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my greatest gratitude to the Almighty God and
Lord Jesus Christ. I thank Him for being with me in all my ways of life. I
present this thesis to my beloved Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of
St.Charles Borromeo. To all my fellow sisters, especially to Sr. Rosaria,CB and
the members of General Board and Sr. Carolina, CB and the members of
Province Board; for only by their prayer in the presence of God that I am enabled
to finish this thesis.
Foremost, I would like to express my warmest gratitude to my thesis
advisor, Christina Kristiyani, S.Pd., M.Pd., for her generosity, kindness,
encouragement, and meticulous guidance, and for her constant patience and
warmth in completing this thesis. I also wish to extend my humble gratitude to all
my lecturers in PBI who have guided and helped me during my study, especially
to my academic advisor, Christina Lhaksmita Anandari, Ed.M, who has been
being my academic advisor for these past five years, for her encouragement, her
kind wishes, and sound advice.
I am indebted to Ibu Anjar, the School Principal, to Ms. Mita, the
English teacher, who was my collaborator in doing my research and the
students of eleventh grade of Cookery Department of St. Pius X Vocational High
School in the academic year 2015-2016, who were the participants in this study,
for all their support and for their cheerfulness throughout the research.
I am especially grateful to my parents, to my beloved sister Novi, and to
my beloved brother Daniel, Rafael, and Geovanni for their prayer, help,
support, and love over these years. My special gratitude also goes for my entire
classmate, class A 2011; especially for Dias, Sr. Nicoline, F.Ch, and all of those
who I cannot mention their name one by one. I am so blessed to be in this class
with all of you. I stayed young and strong because of you all.

Agnes Ambar Pratiwi Bayuningsih

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE .............................................................................................. i
APPROVAL PAGE .................................................................................... ii
DEDICATION PAGE ................................................................................ iv
STATEMENT OF WORK‟S ORIGINALITY............................................ v
PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI......................................... vi
ABSTRACT .............................................................................................. vii
ABSTRAK ................................................................................................ viii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................... ix
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................ x
LIST OF TABLES AND GRAPHS ............................................................ xii
LIST OF FIGURE ...................................................................................... xiii
LIST OF APPENDICES ............................................................................. xiv

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................ 1
A. Research Background .................................................................... 1
B. Problem Limitation ....................................................................... 4
C. Problem Formulation ...................................................................... 4
D. Research Objectives ........................................................................ 4
E. Research Benefits .......................................................................... 5
F. Definition of Terms ....................................................................... 5

CHAPTER II. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE................... 8
A. Theoretical Description ............................................................... 8
1. The Nature of Speaking ......................................................... 9
2. CLT and Speaking Activities................................................. 11
3. Snakes and Ladders Board Game ............................................ 15
4. The Use of Board Game in Teaching Speaking Skill ........ 18
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