A STUDY ON TEACHING SPEAKING BY USING GAMES TO THE ELEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 1 TERAS BOYOLALI IN 2009 / 2010 ACADEMIC YEAR

The objective of the study are to describe the implementation of teaching speaking by using games to the eleventh year students of SMA N 1 Teras,and to know the student’s responses after being given the speaking material by using games, to know the kinds of game activities that should be used in teaching speaking, and to describe the advantages and disadvantages from gamnes in teaching speaking. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The subject of the study is eleventh year students of SMA N 1 Teras consisting of 40 students from XI IS 1 and 40 from XI IS 4. The object of the study in this research is the use of games in teaching speaking to the eleventh year student of SMA N 1 Teras Boyolali. The instruments used for collecting data are questionnaires, observation , and interview. The collected data are analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The results of the study show that first teaching speaking by uisng games make students got chance the use of oral language, second, by doing the games the students feel more relaxed, free and confident in learning English in the classroom. Third, the games applied in teaching speaking are Domino Instruction, Sweet Reason, and What do I Need.Fourth, the advantages of uisng games in teaching speaking are the students could be more interested in learning material, they would give more attention to the lesson given, games in teaching learning process was the teacher didn’t need to explain too many materials. Finally, disadvantages of using games in teaching speaking are in teaching learning process was by attracting student’s interest to games, all of them were active and made noisy, Sometimes they moved and spoke too much. That condition made the teacher difficult to control them. The second advantage of applying some games in teaching learning process was by doing games the teacher only had a little time to explain the material and gave some new words