This research was based on pre-observations made by researcher at MTsN 3
Tanah Bumbu, especially in class VIII, there was a problem where some students
still had difficulty and made mistakes in pronunciation of English words when
having a conversation because when the learning process students feel bored and
not enthusiast because they feel difficult when learning English especially in
grammar aspects. Regarding this problem, the author proposes a learning
approach to improve students' speaking skills in grammar aspects with ice
breaking activities. The objective of this research are: (1) Find out the results of
the pre-test and post-test of students' speaking skills in the grammar aspect of the
control class and the experimental class, (2) Find out whether there is a significant
difference between the control class and the experimental class in improving
students' speaking skills in the grammar aspect before and after being taught
through ice breaking activities. This type of research is field research with a
quantitative approach. The design of this study is an quasi experimental design.
The population in this study were 72 students in two class grade VIII, where class
VIII D was the control class and class VIII C was the experimental class. The
statistical analysis used was a difference test, namely the t-test or Paired Sample
T-test. The results of the study were: (1) Students' speaking skills in the grammar
aspect in the control class were in the poor category with an average score of 1.7
on the pre-test and were in the fairly good category with an average score of 3 on
the final test. Meanwhile, the experimental class was in the same category during
the pre-test with an average value of 1.8 and then was in the good category in the
post-test results with an average value of 4. (2) There was a significant difference
between the control class and the experimental class in improving students'
speaking skills in the grammatical aspect before and after being taught through
icebreaking activities with a sig value of 0.00 < 0.05 where Ha was accepted and
H0 was rejected, which means that there is a level of effectiveness in using
icebreaking which can improve students' speaking skills in the grammatical aspect
in the experimental class