CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
English is one of the human languages in the world
that has important role in communication. It has become international language
and almost practiced in all part of life, especially in this global era that
has full of competition and English becomes one of determiners and assessments of
the competition. So that it is important for us to learn the language. It is
similar to the statement that English has dispersed and diversified, has been
adopted and adapted as an international means of communication by communities
all over the globe.
There are four skills that we have already known in
English, namely writing, speaking, reading and listening. Later, the skills
should be taught better to master and get complete thought about English itself
because each skill has general or specific function in communicating. But we
cannot deny that speaking is the most important one for asking information and
conversely for delivering information, speaking is the direct system of
communication.
Speaking is like the first assessment for each
learner who is studying English and each learner has to speak. This statement
means an obligation, duty, task, fact, implementation, process, and it can be
learning, although we still find some students are speaking little or even
passive in the classroom, and it can be caused of many things include the
students, the class situation, environment, teaching method, technique,
approach or even from the teachers who cannot deliver their material
successfully.
In this last century, many linguists and educators
give more attention in action research to teach English as a foreign language.
According to Stephen Kemmis and Hopkins in book of A Teacher’s Guide to
Classroom Research states that action research is a form of self reflective
inquiry undertaken by participants in a social (including education) situation
in order to improve the rationality and of their own social or educational
practices justice, their understanding of these practices, and the situation in
which practices are carried out.
The researcher has found similar case in SMA Negeri
2 Bontotiro, Bulukumba, X-2 class where the students cannot say something
perfectly in English. They do not know what they must say and how to say, they
look very confuse to express the ideas on their mind even not active enough on
their speaking class, and it can be seen as the last score of the students that
almost do not achieve minimal criteria, 64. According to the teacher’s
experiences that the problem relates directly to the teaching method and how the
teacher delivers material. There is no specific method to teach English, we are
not controlling the class but we are controlled by the class and situation. Speaking
is the most important lesson that the students should be mastered, but in fact
speaking becomes the most difficult lesson to understand by the students, so
that the speaking always becomes passive class in every meeting.
Based on the fact as previous problem above, then,
the researcher emphasized the problem and tried to investigate what idea came
in his mind and began to collect his literatures based on the problem, analyzed
focus of the problem and appropriate extends that would be needed to be
practice driven in this research preparation. His research is about speaking in
early production or to the student who will begin to produce their sentences
and deliver the idea without worrying any failure; his target is to improve the
students’ speaking ability at the X-2 class of SMA Negeri 2 Bontotiro.
Teaching speaking is an interesting and challenging
duty for teacher for some considerations. An EFL teacher is asked to be more
creative with flexible lesson planning in teaching this skill, like selecting
an appropriate technique, materials, teaching instructions, teaching aids, and
time allocation which can help the students in their process to speak the
language well.
There are many techniques can be adopted by the
teacher in teaching this skill, and one of them is suggestopedia, and it is
also recommended by the researcher after considering the case above.
Suggestopedia is from the related words suggestion and pedagogy as a set of
learning recommendations derived from suggestology. It is one of the best
methods pro introduced by an educator, Dr. Georgi Lozanov, and it has been adapted and adopted
by many EFL teachers in improving English.
Lazanov says that by using this
method one can teach languages approximately three to five times as quickly as
conventional method. However, it is not limited to the learning of languages,
but language learning was found to be a process in which one can easily measure
how much and how fast something is learned. He was thinking about the English
meaning, to suggest = to offer = to propose (but the students are free to
choose), they are free to choose how to speak and express their idea.
Based on Dianne Freeman’s study of language teaching
method said that suggestopedia is a study that desuggests the limitations that
learners have to help them to believe that they could be successful in
learning. This will help the learners to overcome the barriers to learning.
This study is done so because generally, learners would not be able to believe
that they will succeed in gaining the knowledge, which contribute development
of high limitations towards learning.
This method will be applied with interesting
situation in the classroom, and it consists of introduction, concert,
elaboration, production that are oriented through classroom action research, so
that the students feel the process of learning directly. Class will be set as
situation of English that automatically engaged students to express their ideas
easier and free and it means that a
class situation where the whole contents of study include the teacher, the
students, class decoration, instructions, material, situation, and others have
become unity that relate each other.
Based on the factual information and explanation
above, the researcher is interested in conducting a class action research under
the title “Improving Students’ Speaking Ability Through The Use Of
Suggestopedia Method (A study at the X-2 class students of SMU Negeri 2
Bontotiro, Kabupaten Bulukumba).
B.
Problem
Statement
In
relation to the issues as process of problem identification, the researcher
formulates the research question as follows:
1. How
is the students’ speaking accuracy of X-2 class improved through the use of
suggestopedia method?
2. How
is the students’ speaking fluency of X-2 class improved through the use of
suggestopedia method?
C.
Objective
of the Study
Relating
to the problem statement mentioned above, the researcher states that objective
of the study are:
1. To
describe the procedure of teaching speaking to the first year of SMU N 2
Bontotiro, Bulukumba by using the suggestopedia method. It shows easy and funny
activities in teaching and learning speaking. It has several steps or class
actions:
-
Introduction
-
Concert
-
Elaboration
-
Production
2. Later,
this method improves students’ speaking ability of the X-2 class in SMU Negeri
2 Bontotiro, Bulukumba more than other conventional methods.
D.
Significance
of the Study
The
values of the research are concerned to be useful and revised information for
the teachers and especially EFL teachers in senior high school level about the
use of suggestopedia method in improving students’ speaking ability. This
method can make the students enjoy in language classroom activities with
interesting material, comfortable environment, and self confidence. In the
future, the researcher expects that the method will be a contributive method to
institution, science, and government in Indonesia that has been mentioned in
Pancasila and UUD 1945.
E.
Scope
of the Study
This
research is specified his research to the use of suggestopedia method in
improving students’ speaking ability of X-2 class, SMU N 2 Bontotiro,
Bulukumba. Improving the students’ speaking ability of X-2 class, SMU N 2
Bontotiro, Kabupaten Bulukumba is specified into the improvement of fluency and
accuracy.
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