4.2.2 The Use of “High Town” Card Game to Enhance Students’ Speaking
Ability
Teaching speaking can be interesting activity when the teacher knows how to teach it well. They should know the students’ condition in the practical level, in
class and outside. In Indonesia, English is still learned as foreign language, so the media will bring the teacher and the students into an excellent attainment. Media
in speaking cloud be everything that encourages the students to speak, and “High Town” Card is one that is chosen in this research.
There are some aspects in speaking; they are pronunciation, vocabulary, fluency, grammar and comprehension. All of them are important and how to
achieve it is not easy. The students need more practice and supported by appropriate media. “High Town” Card is created to help the students easier in
speaking. Each card has a ton of information about each of the students. Using the information, the students can talk about the “High Town” students, ask
questions about them, become the personality, and play games using the cards. The main purpose of the cards and the game are to make students active in
speaking and practice speaking through game, so the elements of speaking can enhance step by step.
Vocabulary is urgently needed in speaking, because the reason for their silence during English lesson was the lack of vocabulary. In such situation, “High
Town” Card helps them to memorize such vocabularies or expressions. From the research result in table 4.6, it can be clearly seen that the mean of students’
vocabulary increased significantly after being taught by using “High Town” Card as the media in teaching. It simply occurred since the existence of the media
during the teaching process. The other speaking aspect is pronunciation. It also increased in six meetings
of treatments. The good modeling in pronunciation words influenced the students’ way of pronunciation those words. In fact, the improvements in pronouncing
words surely happen when the teachers give model. Nevertheless, structured and organized modeling will be more effective and efficient for the students to imitate
new vocabularies. Structured and organized means that every difficult word and new vocabulary or new expression must be related to the theme is being discussed
in English lesson. In the aspect of fluency, students were able to increase their speed of
speaking and improve their fluency when they understand more vocabularies. The design of “High Town” Card makes the students able to memorize easily how to
use the new vocabularies. They were also able to construct new sentence with those vocabularies.
When the lesson plan of this research is picked into pieces, it consists of four steps. They are building knowledge of the fields, modeling of the text, join
construction of the test and individual construction of the text. In fact, the unity, of this four elements and was collaborated with “High Town” Card helped the
students to improve their speaking aspects.
4.2.3 The Advantages and Disadvantages of “High Town” Card Game in
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