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
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