CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This chapter covers the background, problem statement, objective of the
research, significance of the research, and scope of the research.
- Background
In
English, there are four basic skills that divided into two parts namely
productive skill and receptive skill. Productive skills cover speaking and
writing, while receptive skills cover reading and listening. Some learners get
problem to productive skills especially in speaking English, because the
learners must involve with other skills.
Speaking
is very important in human life. By speaking, people can communicate with
others. Speaking is identified to be difficult to be learned. Chastain (1976)
in Aras (2006) states that learning to speak is more difficult than learning to
understand spoken language. Someone usually faces some troubles in social
interaction namely he or she can not produce his ideas, arguments, and feeling
communicatively. One sometimes can understand what others say but he or she is
not able to communicate it. This may happen because of low practice, low
motivation, less of communicative competence, and no self confidence. Ideally,
if what other expression can be understood, one should be able to produce it.
Based
on the observation on 1st May 2010, the students were not good at
English speaking because of some factors. Firstly, the students do not have
self confidence to speak in front of the class because they still lack in
vocabulary, low understanding in grammar, and mispronunciation. Secondly, the
situation of the class that is uncomfortable for speaking. Finally, the method
that their teacher used in teaching speaking is not interesting for them.
To solve these problems, the teacher should realize
that teaching is not simply in structuring students’ thinking and apply the
teaching method selected, but she has to see and perceive what the students
want. The teacher must look for the way of students to be more active. She is
demanded to be more creative in delivering her material, especially in
speaking.
There are many ways to encourage the students to
speak English. One of the ways is Think-Pair-Share. It is the one of teaching
methods involving discussion. In the class, the application of Think-Pair-Share
will meet the materials and learning objectives stated in curriculum. The
materials will be developed and related to environment, culture, self esteem,
and also self confident of the students to speak in front of the class.
The purpose of this method is given the opportunity
to the students to improve themselves, not only in cognitive aspect, but also
the affective and psychometric aspect. The teacher can motivate the students
that they get opportunity and time to improve themselves in learning, the
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