Abstract:
This study deals with the effect of applying the snakes and ladders board
game on the students’ speaking achievement. The objective of the study was to
investigate the significant effect of applying the Snakes and Ladders Board Game
on the Students’ Speaking Achievement. The population and sample of this study
was tenth years students of 2017/2018 Senior High School (X-RPL1 and X-RPL
2) at SMK Negeri 1 Percut Sei Tuan which consist 46 students. The sample were
devided into two groups, the first group was the experimental that consisted of 23
students treated by using the snakes and ladders board games and the second
group was the control consisted 23 students treated by using conventional method.
The instrument in collecting the data was oral test, pre-test and post-test were
given to the both group, experimental and control group. The data were analyzed
by using t-test formula. The findings showed that the students tought by Task
Based Learning method by using Snakes and Ladders Board Games Strategy got
the higher score than those taught by Discussion method. The result showed that
tobserved (26,79) was higher than ttable (2,01), at a = 0,05 and degree of freedom (df)
= 46. It meant that the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and alternative hypothesis
(Ha) was accepted. The result shows that the hypothesis that there was significant
Effect of Applying the Snakes and Ladders Board Game on the students’
Speaking Achievement.
