CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Language as the tool of communication has an
important role to reveal an intention to someone else. People will be able to
express their thought and feeling by using language. Language, communication
and life can not be separated. Language can be applied in many aspects, such
as: education, society, politics, economics, and culture. One of the ways in
communication is through speaking.
Speaking
is one of the important and essential skills that must be practised to
communicate orally. By speaking people are able to know what kinds of
situations the world. People who have ability in speaking will be better in
sending and receiving information or message to another. Speaking is the
process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non verbal
symbol in various contexts.
According to
Stevick (1982: 103) speaking refers to the gap between linguistic expertise and
teaching methodology. Linguistic expertise concerns with language structure and
language content. Teaching speaking is not like listening, reading, and
writing. It needs habit formation because it is a real communication. The speaking
needs to be practiced as often as possible. It is not like writing and reading
but speaking must be practiced directly in full expression.
Related to the
statements above, the researcher did pre - observation that was done at the
eighth year students of SMPN 27 Makassar, the researcher faced many problems in
teaching learning English. The crucial problems were the students’ problems in
speaking. The problems were; first, the students always did mistakes in
grammar and pronunciation aspect. Basically, they only spoke English but they
did not pay attention to the sentence structure and correct pronunciation.
Second, the students were afraid of making mistake in speaking English. It
indicates that the students had limited vocabulary. Third, the students were
difficult to speak fluently because they were seldom to practice their English
language.
Based on the result interview of the English teacher at the eighth
year students of SMPN 27 Makassar in VIII - I stated that the mean score of the
students’ achievement in speaking English was very low. It was about 5.5 mean
score and the target score that would be achieved was 7.5.
From the problems above the researcher applied one of teaching
techniques. That was an interesting technique and it could improve the
student’s speaking ability, namely Cue Card. The technique was designed to create the
students’ interest to learn with pleasant method. The core of Cue Card is ??????????????
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