The Implementation of Virtual Board Games in Teaching Speaking to the Undergraduate Students

The aim of this study is to know the implementation of virtual board games teaching media in teaching speaking. The writer also conducted this study to investigate whether virtual board games teaching media was able to make the students have active engagement in spoken activity. The participants of this study were ten second semester English students of STKIP Al Hikmah who took Critical Speaking Course. The goal of this course was the students were able to master speaking skill for critical context. This study used descriptive qualitative research. The instruments of this study were an observation sheet and questionnaire. The observation sheet was used to get the data of the implementation of virtual board games in teaching speaking. the questionnaire was used to gain the data of students’ responses toward using virtual board games in teaching speaking. The result of this study showed that the implementation of this media created exciting atmosphere in teaching and learning speaking. The result from observation data showed that the students were very active to engage in oral communication activity. The result of the data from questionnaire showed that most students were excited learning speaking using board games teaching media. The result of the data also showed that some students said that virtual board game media was helpful for them in in mastering speaking skill.