ENGAGING THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Problem
There are four skills
that must be mastered in teaching learning English, there are listening,
writing, reading, and speaking. The most important one of them is speaking.
Teaching English speaking is the process of giving the English lesson, from the
teacher to the students based on the material from the syllabus of the certain
school, in order that the students are able to absorb it and they will be able
to communicate by using English orally. All those skills are support by some
components such as vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, fluency, and
comprehension.
Based on Alonso (2013: 147) in the field of
teaching second languages, speaking is a demanding skill, with phenomena such
as vowel reduction and elision making the production of good spoken language
difficult. The elements such as slang and idioms render speaking a difficult
skill to acquire, not to mention stress, rhythm and intonation. In further
difficulty the teacher may explain a rule in the L2, the learners will often
not actually put it into practice to any great extent
According to the information from the
English teachers in students of SMA
Negeri, the problems are such as the new curriculum,
it makes an old teacher difficult to follow it. In addition, the students also
want to show to the other student in the school or members of their family that
they can speak some English. For this reason, teacher must use creative
teaching methods that support students to take part actively in the class. The
teaching learning processes have to involve not only teacher and students, but
also the students and students.
To help the students solve those problems,
the teacher shall motivate them and create the most effective way to stimulate
them, so they will interest in practicing their speaking. On other hand, the
teacher shall use certain technique to stimulate students to practice their
speaking, because good strategy will support them in achieving skill including
English skill. Teacher have to teach the material by using good method, good
technique and organize teaching-learning process as good as possible, so
teaching-learning process can run well.
