concepts or the terms used in the research title. The terms necessarily to be defined operationally were Board Games, the
students’ speaking achievement, and telling experiences.
3.4.1 Board Games
Board Games are language games that can be applied in language teaching and learning process. In this research, the use of Board Games had the
objective to tell a recount text based on the picture clues provided on the board orally. Therefore, Board Games used in this research wa
s called “What Did You Do Yesterday?” adapted from www.ESLprintables.com by Roeland.
These games were played by 6 students in each group.
Each group was given a dice, different colors of thumbtacks for each player, and a set of Board Game. The set
of Board Game contained 3 layers in which the player had to do the exercises given in each layer. On the first layer, the students were expected to state the
place of the picture got and listed some related words dealing with the place. On the second layer, the students were expected to mention some recreational places
based on the picture got and told the feelings of having vacation there. On the last layer, the students were expected to outline the content according to generic
structure of a recount text by answering some jumble questions provided. Then, they had to sequence the events on the previous task based on the generic
structure of a recount text. Finally, they were expected to perform the recount text consisting of approximately 10 sentences orally. The maximum time was 2
minutes. Board Games were chosen because these games had never been used by the English teacher of SMPN 4 Jember. Besides, these games were easy to do
and could be implemented based on the curriculum and syllabus used at SMPN 4 Jember.
3.4.2 The Students’ Speaking Achievement
In this research, the students’ speaking achievement referred to how successful
the result of the students’ speaking post-test after being given the treatments, that is, Board Games, by the researcher for the experimental group
and for the control group was taught speaking without media. In this case, the speaking achievement covered the aspects of 1 content, 2 grammar, 3
pronunciation, 4 vocabulary and 5 fluency.
3.4.3 Telling Experience
