CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
As internationally pronounced language,
English occupies the first position in the word by communication today. This
position makes English most widely used all over the world in all aspects of
human life. English is a language used conveying our ideas to other persons. We
can communicate with other people in the world by the language. In our country,
English plays an important role in international communication and in the
development of Education, Economic, Science, and Technology.
One problem that usually find is that the
students’ are capable of structure or reading, but have the lack of speaking,
although English have been thought in Indonesia as a compulsory subject from
junior school to senior high school and university. Therefore, we can state
that speaking is one of the improvements of their speaking skill. Studying English without practice speaking is useless.
(Fauziati, 2002:126)
Speaking is the process of
building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols.
Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and teaching. However,
today’s world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should improve
students’ communicative skills because students can express themselves and
learn how to use a language.
Nowadays, many teacher agree
that students should learn to speak theSecond language by interacting to
others. For this case, students’ should master several speaking components such
as: comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and fluency. In brief,
English teacher should be creative in developing their teaching learning
process to create good atmosphere, improve the students speaking skill, give
attention to the speaking components’, and make the English lesson more
exiting. For this reason, the English teacher of SMP Pesantren Sinergi Mulya applies
appropriate method and technique of teaching speaking. The method used by the
teacher is pair work method.
Here the researcher was applied a new
method to improve students’ ability to speak English, the method is pair work. Pair
work is one of the learning strategies which emphasized on the efficient and
the effectiveness in teaching and learning process. Besides that, students
expect can motivate them to construct the knowledge in their own understanding
and to make connection between knowledge and its application in their daily.
Based on the explanation above that the
students still low or lack of speaking so the writer is interested in
investigating whether the use of pair work method is effective or not in
improving students’ speaking by carrying out the research under the title:
“Improving the Students’ ability to speak English using pictures through pair work/.
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