IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH COMMUNITY INTERACTION ACTIVITIES AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMAN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
“Speaking is active or productive and makes use of the aural medium. If we think of speaking in term of use, however, the situation was rather different. To begin with an act of communication trough speaking was commonly performed in face to face interaction and occurs as part of dialogue or other form of verbal exchange.” (Widdowson, 1983: 58)
The students had problem in speaking such as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. They seldom practice their speaking in class. They just study about memorizing the conversations, after that they practice their friends without know what was the meaning and how to speak the sentences well. It makes students lower in speaking and than student does not creative in speaking.
The teacher in teaching English just uses traditionally method, like speech method to explain the material until finish. It makes students bored. In other hand the teacher does not use media and they never changed the method. And than teacher just gives test the student without explain first, beside that the teacher just ask to students to memorize the conversation and than ask them to practice it.
Students need something different in study English, specially speaking. Study speaking is study about communication and interaction with people. To make interaction we need object to do it, such as community. In community there was social relationship and need interaction to make relation with the same community or different community. From interaction can do activities and can stimulate student to speak with their friends or to do role play like in a community interaction activities method. When students always practice their speaking, students can improve their ability. Beside that, students need something to stimulate their thinking, So that they can get idea to talk with their reciprocal.
J. Donald Bowen (1985: 117-118) “when study speaking the teacher should device activities which will ???????
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