CAR 6 : Summary of Journal 3

The journal that i have read is “Using communicative games in improving students’ speaking skills. as we know speaking is one of important language skills in which should be mastered by foreign language learners because of its importance for communication. But, according to research found that learners in asia have a lot of similarities and difficulties in speaking, the problems such as afraid of making mistakes, afraid of being ridiculed by their friends because of not having good grammar and pronunciation they use. So that, it is necessary to find a way to overcome this problem, one of the ways is using communicative games. In this journal, using communicative games is hoped to help the students to solve their problems in speaking as this study aims to know whether communicative games give positive impact on teaching speaking skill at junior high schools in jakarta. In this research, Classroom Action Research (CAR) is implemented based on Kurt. L model and the researcher uses collaborative action research accompanied by english teachers. The procedures use planning, acting, observing, reflecting also this research is done in two cycles in which each of the cycle is consisted of three meetings. To gather the data, researcher uses interview, observation, questionnaire and test, the test here is only given to students. The result of the research shows the score of pre-test is 60.42 from the previous study to 69.02 from the second study, and the post-test reaches 78.7. from the data, it has significant improvement after using communicative games so that we can note that using communicative games give positive impact in teaching learning process as well as overcoming students’ problem speaking skill. Then we conclude that using communicative games also improve students’ speaking skill.

Dewi, R., S., Kulstum, UU., Arnadi, A. (2016). Using communicative games in improving students’ speaking skills. Canadian center of science and education.