THE EFFECT OF BLINDFOLD GAME IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

The objectiveof this research was to investigate the students’ speaking skill through Blindfold Game. This observation was taken 7 Days which started from Thursday, 20th February to 28 February 2020. The Quantitave Research Method was used in this research. The subject of this research were tenth grade students of SMA Swasta Jaya Krama Beringin academic year 2019-2020. The population from this research were the whole students in the class tenth grade A and B.

Technique of collecting data used was pre – test and post-test data, test,observation and documentation. The result of this research showed that there was improving of students’ speaking skill. The findings showed that the students’ speaking skill was improved.the researcher found that the result of the t-testformula was0,007. The value of the degree of freedom (Df) is 52. The researcher made the conclusion of the hypothesis that t_0 is bigger than t-test namely 0,007> 1,70. It means that the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected.There was an improvement of students’ speaking skill significant effect of using blindfold game. It means that Blindfold Game was able to improve the students’ speaking skill.