Jumriani DM. 2021. Using Communicative Games to Improve Students‟ Speaking Skill at SMPN 2 Lamasi (Supervised by Rusdiana Junaid and Fibri Indira Lisanty).

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of communicative games that
can improve students‟ speaking skills in class VIII at SMPN 2 Lamasi. The method
uses in this research is a pre-experimental design. The population in this research is
the seventh-grade students of SMPN 2 Lamasi, and the total sample is 15 students.
The research uses a cluster random sampling technique in determining the sample.
The instrument of this research is speaking. The results of this research indicated that
after using the communicative games to improve students' speaking skills of SMPN 2
Lamasi increases. This shows that there are significant differences between student
scores in pre-tests and post-test. The mean score of the students‟ pre-test is 37.47 and
81.47 in the post-test. So, there is significant different between the result of pre-test
and post-test after the treatment. Therefore, the researcher concludes that
communicative games is effective in teaching speaking at eight grade of SMPN 2
Lamasi.