Teaching Speaking By Using Games to the Fourth Grade Students of SDN Kentingan 79

Oleh :
Ani Sudyaswati - C9309011 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

This final project was written based on my job training accomplished as an English teacher in SDN Kentingan 79, Surakarta, started from January 2nd, 2012 until February 22 nd, 2012. The objectives of this report were to describe the teaching speaking activities to the fourth grade students of SDN Kentingan 79 Surakarta and to describe the problems and try to find the solutions in teaching speaking activities to the fourth grade students in SDN Kentingan 79 Surakarta. The process of teaching speaking to the fourth grade students of SDN. Kentingan 79 consists of four steps based on the lesson plan I previously designed. Those steps were warming up, presentation, production and closing. In teaching speaking, I applied games as the technique of teaching. The game that I applied was “what am I doing ?”, which belonged to guessing game. Based on the discussion, the use of games was an effective way to improve the student’ speaking skill, because it can encourage the students to speak English. Game can also motivate the students to learn English. I encountered some problems during the process of teaching speaking to the fourth grade students of SDN Kentingan 79. The problems were the limited teaching material, the class management, the students’ interest and the mother tongue interference. I suggested the solution to overcome those problems, such as by looking for other sources to overcome the limitation of teaching material and asking the students to sit down and to pay attention by using loud voice and attention gather to handle the noisy students. I also applied games and gave the active students a reward to attract the students’ interest. I asked the students to repeat after I pronounced a word in order to make them good in pronounciation