In communicating, there are known for many differences in languages, dialects, and
intonations. This is the cause of differences in the pronunciation of foreign
languages used by the majority of people and misunderstand in interpreting the
meaning, especially students who are in modern Islamic boarding schools who have
different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. So that it is very important to learn the
correct in speaking. based on the phenomenon that occurred, the researcher is
interested in knowing how the teacher implement and the students implement
tongue twisters in speaking class and knowing the students’ perceptions on the use
of tongue twisters in speaking class at Darul Istiqamah Islamic Boarding School.
the researcher applied a qualitative research approach by descriptive qualitative
research method. The data were collected through observation in the class,
interview with 5 students at grade 11 and 1 English teacher and documentation. The
result showed that the teacher implemented three types of tongue twisters technique
in pre-learning, while learning and post learning activities which were easy,
medium and hard. Besides being implemented by the teacher, students also
implemented it in group performance followed by some variation while performed
in some types and models of tongue twisters. In addition, there some perspectives
about tongue twisters according to the students. Which most of the students believe
that tongue twisters technique was effective to use in learning speaking in Darul
Istiqamah Islamic Boarding School