1 TEACHING SPEAKING BY USING CHAIN STORYGAME IN MTs. IKHLASUL AMAL SEBAWI Tiara Wulandari, Clarry Sada, Luwandi Suhartono English Study Program FKIP Untan Pontianak Email: tiarawulandari295@gmail.com Abstract This research is entitled “Teaching Speaking by Using Chain Story Game”. the purpose of this research is to find out whether or not the use of Chain Story Game can improve students’ speaking skill and to find out how well is the effect of the use of Chain Story Game in improving students’ speaking skill. In conducting this research, the researcher applied pre-experimental research using one sample group with no control group. The data showed that the mean score of the students’ post-test was (11.83) higher than the students’ pre-test (9.67). Furthermore, the research indicated that the effect size (1.43) was categorized as strong effect. The t-obtained (5.12) was higher than t-table (2.228). In conclusion, the alternative hypothesis “The use of Chain Story Game can improve the speaking skill of the second grade students of MTs. Ikhlasul ‘Amal Sebawi in Academic Year 2018/2019“ was accepted and the null hypothesis was rejected. Keywords: Narrative Text, Teaching Speaking, Chain Story Game INTRODUCTION Speaking is one of the ways to communicate with other people. When we speak, people set their impression about us. If a person speak fluently, other people will set a good impression of us and other people will easily understand what we want to talk about. Nowadays, English has been the most used language in the world. In Indonesia, English is one of the foreign languages that have been taught since Junior High School level until University level. Unfortunately, according to Curriculum 2013, for the elementary school the English is taught as local content, and this becomes one of the reasons that Junior High School students face difficulties in learning English language, because they didn’t get the basic knowledge from their elementary school. In English, there are four major skills that are need to be mastered by the students; reading, writing, listening and speaking. Among those four skills, speaking is considered as the most complicated skill that the student need to master. As stated by Lyn Dawes (2008) “spoken language is an essential tool with which children make meaning and organize thinking”. In speaking, when a person speaks, they have to think what they want to say, and say it quickly to the person they communicate with, and they also need to use appropriate words in order to make other people understand what they really mean. This become the reason why speaking skill is the most complicated skill that the student needs to master. J. Charles Alderson and Lyle F. Bachman (2009) states that “When people hear someone speak, they pay attention to what the speaker sounds like almost automatically.” Thus, wwhen someone speaks, people will almost automatically judge the speaker’s personality, attitudes, home region and native/non-native speaker status. And also, as the speakers, people tend to show or create an image of themselves to others. That is the reason why speaking is not an easy skill to master. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran