An Alternative Technique in Teaching Speaking Spoken Descriptive Text Using the Color Hunting Game

Abstract

This final project discussed about the use of color hunting game in teaching spoken descriptive text to the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Demak in academic year 2012/2013. The writer did the observation to the VIIA class students to get the data. The purposes of this final project are to describe the implementation of using color hunting game in teaching spoken descriptive text in the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Demak, to find out the problems encountered by the students in learning spoken descriptive text using color hunting game, and to find out the possible solutions to solve the problems encountered by the students in learning spoken descriptive text using color hunting game.

Descriptive text is one of the genres that are taught in Junior High School and becomes one of the criterion of the assesment. There are two cycles to teach descriptive text, spoken and written. In this final project, the writer observed the spoken descriptive text.

This study used descriptive qualitative as a research method to describe and analyze the use of color hunting game in teaching spoken descriptive text. The writer acted as a passive participant observer. The sources to get the data were the English teacher and the students of VIIA of SMP N 2 Demak.

After analyzing the data, the writer concluded that there are some problems encountered by the students in learning spoken descriptive text using color hunting game. They are as follows: (1) The students had difficulties in arranging sentences because they were still lack of vocabularies. (2) The students had difficulties in pronouncing some words and sometimes make mistakes. (3) The students felt doubt in conveying their sentences because they were lack of self confidence. (4) The students sometimes can not understand the teacher’s instruction during the teaching and learning process.

From this final project, the writer hoped that the reader could get some information, advantages, knowledge about the use of media especially color hunting game in teaching spoken descriptive text.

                                                                                       

Keywords: Teaching speaking, spoken descriptive text, color hunting game.

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