USING CAT AND MOUSE GAME TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF MA YMPI RAPPANG
The objectives of this research was to find out whether or not the use of cata nad mouse improve the students’ speaking ability at Eleventh grade of MA YMPI Rappang.This research applied a pre-experimental method. The population of the research was the eleventh grade students of MA YMPI Rappang in academic year 2015-2016. There were 55 students spread in 3 classes (XI IPA, XI IPS 1, and XI IPS 2) and each class consist appropriately 18-20 students. The researcher took cluster sampling and chose XI IPS 1 as the representative and the number of total sample is 20 students. The data were collected by using interview test that consisted 10 items.The result of data analysis showed that there was significant difference of the students’ speaking ability after giving treatment by using cat and mouse game. It was proved by the mean score of post-test which was higher than the mean score of pre-test (66.55 > 49.10). The researcher found that the p-value was lower than the α (0.000 < 0,05), it means that H1 accepted.Based on the result above, the researcher concludes that the use of cat and mouse game can improves the students’ speaking ability.