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This paper is to discuss the utilizing guessing games in enhancing students’ speaking skill in authentic assessment at grade IX State Junior High School 1 Padang. According to Burns and Joyce (1997), speaking is an interactive process to build meaning which covers producing, receiving, and processing information. Widdowson (2011) said speaking is an oral productive skill which happens face to face between speaker and hearer. Assessment is a way with questions to seek and to get the answer about what students should know, what the institution contributes to student growth, how learning can be improved. Callison (1998) states that authentic assessment is an evaluation that consists of various forms of performance measurements reflecting the students’ learning, achievement, motivation, and attitudes on instructionally-relevant activities. In this discussion, a way has been chosen is guessing game. Wright (1976) stated Guessing games can be good authentic assessment for speaking skill because it helped students to be active to speak and their friends can guess their games. It also contributes to an easier understanding of their pronunciation. It helped the students got some benefits in guessing games. They can improve their speaking and they can enlarge their vocabulary, can make their pronunciation and intonation better. It supported by Alex Case (2000), guessing game is a game/ an object to guess some kinds of information. It is stated that the games attract students’ interest , motivation, stimuli to involve in teaching learning process without any doubtless. Keywords— Utilizing, Guessing Games, Enhancing, Speaking, Authentic Assessment

Utilizing Guessing Games to Enhance Students' Speaking Skill in Authentic Assessment at Grade Nine State Junior High School