Increasing Students’ Pronunciation Through Battleships Games

Abstract

The aim of this study is to detect the ability of Students’ English Pronunciation through Battleship Games. The data of this research was Students’ Pronunciation that’s about Sound and Phonetic in particular, with the data sources was 28 pre-intermediate level students of English Department STAIN Mandailing Natal. This paper focused on implementing Battleship Games as a Learning method for Increasing Students’ Pronunciation which funny, attractive and accessible, the research method of this study uses qualitative research. It uses observation, Interview, Implementation and test as the instrument for collecting the data.  The Procedure of collecting the data is the researcher observe the class, then implementing Battleship games to the class by pre-test and post-test, evaluate the class, after that doing interviewing to the class about the learning method. The result of this study showed that Battleships games is very effective to increase students’ pronunciation, it is shown based on their ability in pronunciation the sound and phonetic is very well, they’re also attractive and enjoy in the class during playing these games, they more confidence to pronounce some sounds and phonetics than previous lesson, they can also practice their pronunciation without knowing it during playing Battleship games. Based on those, it can be concluded that the interesting games will affect to the students’ pronunciation ability, and making students talking all the time (STT) is very valuable for their achievement in language.