A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF TEACHING SPEAKING AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF LANGUAGE PROGRAM OF PANGUDI LUHUR
SAINT JOSEPH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SURAKARTA
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requireme nts for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
by
ANITA PRIHATIN WIJAYANTI A 320 030 240
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
CHAPTER I
I N T R O D U C T I O N
A. Background of the Study
Language has played an important role in many aspects of human live. Using language people can express their ideas, transfer information or message. Language is also used to realize every person’s hopes, aspiration and thinking. As a means of communication it is very useful and flexible which can serve the human needs in their communication in any situation. There are international languages, namely English, French, Japan and German. Of the international languages, English is most widely used in the world.
Since it is an international language, English is taught as a compulsory subject in Indonesia. It is learned by students of play group, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and university. Indonesia students are expected to comprehend English as well as Indonesian language. The government hopes that the students in Indonesia can use English in speaking with their friends or perhaps with foreigners fluently.
Few senior high schools in Surakarta open language program besides social and MIPA program. One of them is Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School. This is a private school under Pangudi Luhur institution. Language program was opened on the third grade, but when the curriculum was changed into Competence Based Curriculum language program began from the second grade. Each grade consists of one class language program. This language program gives many languages to study, namely: English, German, Japan and Arabic. This program is supported with English laboratory too.
Teacher is supposed to be creative in developing their teaching methods to create good atmosphere, improve the students’ speaking skill and make the English lesson more exciting. One of the big questions in any English teachers’ head is “how do we develop our students’ speaking skill?”
B. Previous Study
In this research, the writer summarizes some previous study that relevant with the writer’s topic. The first researcher was done by Sumiyati (1997) entitled “A descriptive study on structural error in speaking skill Made by The Third Semester Students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta in 1995. She analyzed the English structural error in speaking skill made by the third semester students of English Department of UMS in 1995. Based the data analysis, the researcher figures out that the third semester students of English Department of UMS in 1995 still make structural errors in their speaking activity.
The second researcher was done by Mukinah (2005) who studies the teaching speaking. She describes the teaching speaking at Istibank English Course in Surakarta by using role-play. The results show that are (a) character, it increase the students’ creativity in playing role character, it increases the students’ vocabulary, create good pronunciation, (b) the use of role-play method is suitable for the beginners, (c) almost of the students are active in classroom activity.
students pronunciation, (b) repetition technique is effective to improve the students’ pronunciation by indicating of the razing percentage of the average accurateness from 43 % up to 80 %, (c) some problem are faced by students.
In this research, the writer tries to make different research. The writer wants to describe the process of developing teaching speaking.
C. Problem Statement
Based on the background of the study, the writer form elates the problems, as follows:
1. What is the technique teaching speaking used by the third year students of language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta?
2. How is the implementation of teaching speaking at the third year students of language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta?
D. Objective of the Study
The writer has some objectives dealing with the problem statement above, they are:
2. To describe the process of speaking through presentation at the third year students of the language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta.
E. Limitation of Study
In this research the writer only focuses on the process of teaching speaking by the third year students of language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta.
F. Benefit of the Study
1. Theoretical Benefit
It is expected that the result of this research can be an input to create teaching English, particularly speaking through presentation as variation in teaching English.
2. Practical Benefit
It will give additional input and reference about the realization of teaching speaking.
G. Research Paper Outline
