DEVELOPING ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE BOARD GAME AS MEDIA TO TEACH SPEAKING OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR THE 8TH GRADERS OF SMP AL-AMJAD MEDAN

The purpose of this research was to develop speaking media for the 8th graders of Junior High School. This research was performed through seven steps of using Research and Development (R&D) design; gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing materials, validating by experts, revising, final product, and field testing. The subject of this study was the 8th graders of SMP Al-Amjad Medan. The data were collected by administering interview to English teacher and distributing questionnaires to 29 participants in order to obtain the students' needs. The findings of the interview and questionnaire show that the students need the interesting English speaking media that is more interactive which the media can encourage students to be able to speak actively in English. The product had been validated by the experts. The result of the product was a board game and other equipment of Communicative Board Game like cards, dice, playing pawns and cube. In addition, the other findings of this research after implementing this product was the use of Communicative Board Game could stimulate, encourage students to speak and this media was also able to give chance to all students to speak not only give chance to the group representative.