DEVELOPING “WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?” BOARD GAME AS MEDIA TO TEACH SPEAKING

ABSTRACT Pindika, Vikka Setiawati Anatha. 2015. Developing “What’s on Your Mind?” Board Game as Media to Teach Speaking. Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. Advisor: (I) Dr. Emalia Iragiliati, M.Pd, (II) Dra. S. Nurul Muthmainnah., M.A. Key words: Board game, speaking skill, senior high school This study aimed at developing an instructional medium in the form of a board game called “What’s on Your Mind?” to be used as the teaching medium to teach speaking. This board game was designed tomotivate the 11th graders of senior high school to learn speaking skill, create joyful and fun atmosphere for the students to learn English, especially speaking skill. The materials were chosen according to the syllabuson the first semester2013 Curriculum of eleventh grade covering the expressions of giving opinions, suggestion and offer, and hope and dream.The study adapted the steps of research and development by Borg and Gall (1983). The procedures of the study were needs analysis, product planning, product development, product validation, product revision I, product try-out, product revision II, and final product.To collect data in needs analysis, the researcher interviewed the teacher and distributed questionnaires to the students. The data from needs analysis were used to plan and develop the board game. “What’s on Your Mind?” board game was developed by following the ASSURE model by Heinich (1982) and it was the modification of Snake and Ladder and Monopoly board games, consisting of board, player guide, situation cards, tokens, dices, and stickers. After being developed, the board game was validated by an expert in media development by administering validation checklist. From the results of expert validation, some aspects of the game were revisedsuch as,the clearness of the instructions, the grammar in the situation cards, and the topic.After being revised, the game was tried out to twelve subjects from class 11th Science II of SMAN 7 Malang, which were divided into two groups, each of group which consisted of students with low, intermediate, and high proficiency levels. The subjects were 11th grader students, selected by considering the teacher’s point of view of the students’ achievement and the score of English in school report cards. To gain the data, the researcher interviewed the teacher, distributed questionnaires to English teacher and students, and observing the try-out process. From the try-out, the researcher revised the size of the tokens and the board, the number and the color of the dices, and the size of the package. From the study, it could be concluded that the product was worthy to be used to teach speaking skill for 11th graders of senior high school. The game could help the students gain confidence in speaking up their idea in English. Some suggestions were given for the English teachers to act as facilitator in the classroom, condition the game for larger group of students, and modify the topic and reward of the game. Meanwhile, for the future researchers, it was suggested to develop more board games for other skills