CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Teaching English in our country has been developing extensively because English
function as an international language. Therefore, Indonesia government has
brought it into school curriculum from elementary school up to university.
English in our education program has become compulsory subject. Start from
junior high school up to university. Even today, some elementary schools
include this subject as a local content. One important element of language that
needs to be developed is speaking.
Speaking is one of the skills in English and plays an important role in
learning a foreign language. It can measure the success of people in terms of ability to take
conversation in the language. Therefore, studying English without practice speaking is useless. Usually, the students do not participate actively
in
speaking, probably because they are lack of knowledge or have no idea toward
the subject matter or discussed. This facts invites the English teachers
have to motivate the students to speak.
Base on information from an English teacher at SMA Muhammadiyah 4 Makassar of
the second Grade students especially at the class XI that the students’
achievement in speaking was still low where the students’ value average still
got score 4.21, while the standard speaking in curriculum is 6.5. Because the
students still lack in use grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and self
confidence. In this study, the researcher wants to solve this problem until the
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