ANALYSIS OF SPEAKING ACTIVITIES IN PATHWAY TO ENGLISH: A TEXTBOOK BASED ON 2013 CURRICULUM
Linea Dorothea
Abstract
This study aimed to find out to what extent the speaking activities in Pathway to English textbook fulfilled the criteria of mnemonic device, S.P.E.A.K.I.N.G, proposed by Dell Hymes(1974). The sample of this research was a textbook, Pathway to English, published by Erlangga in 2013. The data were collected by selecting speaking activities written on the textbook and they were analyzed using the checklist of mnemonic device, S.P.E.A.K.I.N.G. The result show that 57 speaking activities written on the textbook only fulfilled three categories of the mnemonic device; S,E and I. The findings of this study were to remind the teacher, who use Pathway to English textbook, to develop the instruction of the speaking activities in line with S.P.EA.K.I.N.G proposed by Dell Hymes.
