USING ENGLISH MINGLING GAMES TO IMPROVE THE SPEAKING SKILLS OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 2 MLATI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

摘要

This research is aimed at improving the speaking skill of the seventh grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Mlati through the use of Mingling Games.udThis research was action research that consisted of two cycles. In doing the research, the researcher involved 37 students of Class VII B, one English teacher as teacher collaborator, the researcher himself and two research collaborators which were the researcher’s fellow university students. The research steps done referred of four essential moments of planning, action and observation, reflection. This research views communicative competence as involving the speaking skills of the students. It consists of three stages, namely Presentation, Practice and Production. In this research, there were two kinds of data. The first data were qualitative data. To obtain the qualitative data, the researcher conducted interviews. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were in the form of the students’ test scores obtained by conducting Test 1 at the end of Cycle 1 and Test 2 at the end of Cycle 2.udThe findings of this research show that the use of the Mingling Games can improve the students’ speaking skill. In reference to the students’ speaking scores, the students’ ability was improved after the Mingling Games were used as the teaching aid for the speaking session. It can be seen from the students’ scores that increased from Cycle 1 to Cycle 2. Besides, the Mingling Games can improve the students’ motivation and participation in the teaching and learning activities of speaking.