TEACHING SPEAKING BY USING SNAKE AND LADDER GAME
Abstract: The
purpose of this
research is to
find out the effectiveness,
the strengths, and
the weaknesses of
the snake and
ladder game in teaching speaking to the seventh grade
students of SMPN 4 Ketapang in academic
year 2013/2014. This
research was conducted
as a pre experimental research with the one group
pretest-posttest. The sample of this
research were class
VII C which
consists of 24
students. The data were
collected through pretest
and posttest of
students’ speaking performance and
were analyzed by
using Effect Size
(ES) formula. The result
of mean score
of the students
in pretest before
treatment is 51.33 and
the students mean
score of posttest
after treatment is
74.53. The finding shows
that the effect
of treatment is
1.49 (>1.00) or
categorized as strong effect.
It indicates that
the use of
snake and ladder
game is effective in teaching
speaking.
Author: Syarifah Mawaddah,
Luwandi Suhartono, Wardah
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150081
