ABSTRACT
The objectives of this research are: (1) To know whether the use of Teams Games Tournament (TGT) Technique can improve the students’ participation in speaking or not and (2) To describe the difficulties in the class during the implementation of Team Games Tournament (TGT). This study used a classroom action research design.
The research was conducted on April - May 2017 consisting of two cycles. Each cycle consists of three meetings. Every cycle consists of four steps: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The research participants were the students of class X Keperawatan in SMK Murni 1 Surakarta. There were 16 students, 14 females and 2 males. The data were collected by the researcher using qualitative and quantitative technique. The qualitative data consisted of observation, interview, questionnaire, and test. The researcher used constant comparative technique for qualitative data. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were collected using descriptive statistic by comparing the mean score of the students’ test.
Based on the data collected as the research findings, it can be seen that Teams Games Tournament (TGT) could improve the students’ participation in speaking. The students’ participation improvement was shown from the comparison of mean score of the students’ participation assessment in cycle 1 and cycle 2. Moreover, there is an improvement on the students’ participation in speaking. The mean score of students in pre-test was 57, the mean score in cycle 1 was 78, and the mean score in cycle 2 was 81. This research found out that the students’ participation in speaking improved after the implementation of Teams Games Tournament in the classroom. The effective implementation of TGT encouraged the students to actively participate in the learning process and create an enjoyable situation in the speaking learning activities to improve their participation in speaking.

Keywords: speaking, participation, teams-games-tournament