Enhancing Students’ Speaking Skills Through Charades Application

Abstract

This research conducted the use of Charades Application  to enhancing students’ speaking skills . The purpose of the research were 1) to find out the speaking skills of students who were taught without using Charades Application. 2) to find out the speaking skills of students who were taught using Charades Application. 3) to find out the significant difference in the speaking skills of the students between students who were taught without using Charades Application and students who were taught using Charades Application”. The researcher conducted quantitative research, the design of this research was quasi-experimental design with a pre-test post-test control group design. This research involves 64 students at eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Mranggen consisting of experimental class and control class. The instrument of this research is a speaking test, to collect the data before and after treatment, the researcher using pre-test and post-test.  The data were analyzed through independent sample t-tes to testing the hypothesis. After the data analysis, the mean score of pre-test was 54.38, And the mean score of post-test was 81.00.  The result of independent sample t-test in control class and experimental class, it showed that t-test result was 9.799, df was 62, and p-value or (Sig) 2-tailed was 0.000 which was not greater than 0.05 level of significant. It means, Charades Application as teaching media had significantly greater contribution to the students’ integrated performance in speaking skills.