Abstract:
This paper attempted to examine Teaching Speaking Through Team Game Tournament. The purpose of this study was to investigate the practice of Team Game Tournament (TGT) in teaching speaking, to discover the students’ perceptions on the use of TGT, and to find out the problems faced by students when learning speaking through TGT technique, and to find out students’ way in solving their problems in learning speaking. To obtain the data, the study embraced a qualitative case study by means of observation, questionnaire, and interview. There were 23 students were employed as research participants from eleventh grade of one senior high schools in Ciamis. The writer used observation, close ended questionnaires and interview as the qualitative data collection. Then, the data from observation, questionnaire and interview were analyzed by means of qualitative design to find the answer four research questions. The results of the study shows that the teacher implemented TGT through 4 steps. Those are teaching, learning team, tournament, and recognition team so the implementation of TGT caused the students more vigorous in the classroom in learning English. Secondly, TGT help them in improving their speaking ability and improving their interaction to other students and the teacher. In conclusion, the practice of TGT technique in teaching speaking were encouraged the students to think and work to get het for their own group, this method made the students enjoy and it encouraged students to actively participated in teaching and learning and motivated the students to master the learning material.
