DEVELOPING GAMES BOOK FOR TEACHING SPEAKING AT EIGHTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 MASAMBA

ABSTRACT Febrianti Arnita, 2022, “Developing Games Book for Teaching Speaking at Eighth Grade of Junior High School 2 Masamba”. Thesis English Education Study Program of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty Faculty the State Islamic Institute of Palopo. Supervised by: Amalia Yahya and Dewi Furwana. Speaking games is one of the essential approaches to improve students’ speaking. Therefore to improve students’ speaking, the development of speaking games book product is very necessary. Recently, researcher revealed that the problem statement of this research was “How to develop the appropriate games book in teaching speaking at eighth grade of junior high school 2 Masamba?”. The research goal was to develop if games books successfully taught speaking in the eighth grade of junior high school 2 Masamba. The research design used in this research was Research and Development (R&D) utilized 4D model. It consist of (1) Define; Conduct observation and interviews with students and teachers and a need analysis questionnaire to determine which method will be used to examine the curriculum, learning materials, and goal definition. (2) Design; The researcher began working on the design gamebook. (3) Development; The researcher experimented with the product (a games book) and began teaching classes to students. That book has 6 chapters and 14 speaking games. As a result, the researcher taught students used those games one by one. Before gaining the students' opinion, a few games must be devised. (4) Disseminate. There are 15 students in eighth grade of Junior high school 2 Masamba participated in this research, 10 from class A and 5 from class B. The result showed The average score by expert 1 material and design is 3,91 which is mean good. The second expert judgment is 3,94 which is mean good and the last expert judgment is 4.00 which is mean very good. While the result of students’ perception is there are 15 students by 10 statement in that questionnaire of speaking games book after calculated all there are 80% agree on that speaking games book. The result’s suggest that speaking games book has potential successfully taught speaking in the eighth grade of junior high school 2 Masamba and this research will be beneficial for others English teacher. Keywords: Speaking Games, 4-D model, Research and Developmen