TEACHING SPEAKING RECOUNT TEXTS TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH ‘MURDER MYSTERY GAME’

Fatwatul Hasanah (English Departement FBS UNIVERSITAS NEGERI PADANG)
Desvalini Anwar (English Department Faculty of Languages and Arts Universitas Negeri Padang)

Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 7, No 1 (2018)

This paper is aimed at describing the use of ‘Murder Mystery Game’ in teaching speaking recount texts to senior high shchool students. This game is applied to motivate senior high school students to speak English. This game enables  students to solve the problem by using the clues given to them. ‘Murder Mystery Game’ allows the students to share ideas to other students by giving some steps to accomplish. Those steps are interviewing character, discussing in group to find the murderer, and discovering the murderer and telling it to the class in form of oral recount texts.