Improving Students Speaking Ability Trough Hidden Object Game at The Second Grade of SMPN 8 Bandar Lampung

The research was conducted to find out whether i). Is there any significant improvement of students speaking ability before and after being taught trough hidden object game ii) the aspects improve better of students speaking ability after being taught trough hidden object game iii) The students perception about the use of hidden object game. This research is quantitative research and used one group pretest-posttest design as the method. The subject of this research are 30 students at second grade of SMPN 8 Bandar Lampung in class VIII B. Instruments that used in this research were speaking test and questioner. The data were collects trough paired sample t-test. The results of the research are first there is significant improvement of students speaking ability after being taught trough hidden object game. Second the aspect that improve is fluency and In conclusion, hidden object game has a significant effect in increasing students’ speaking achievement then the aspects that improve better was fluency and the students give positive perception about the implementation of hidden object game. Keywords : speaking, hidden object game, descriptive speaking.