THE IMPROVEMENT STUDENTS SPEAKING
SKILL BY USING PAKEM APPROACH
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A.Background
Language
is an international part of human being in their lives without a language life
in the society would be impossible.teachers use language to communicate with
the students or their colleagues to give explanation about the subject, to
distribute their knowledge. Language consist of four skills namely : listening,
reading, speaking, and writing. These skills are divided into two parts. The
first part is productive skills and the second part is receptive skills. Productive skills are speaking and writing.
As well as receptive skills are listening and reading.
English
as an international language plays an important role for communication in
indonesia: it is becoming more and more important with the involvement of the
goverment in the teaching english. The english teachers are insisted to be
creative to design many communicate activities in the classroom. The motivate
students to use the language actively and productively. Anyhow, it is not easy
for the teachers to guide the students to speak english in that classroom.
Especially in speaking class since many students are frightening to give small
talk in the classroom (Vasille and
Muliati 1990 : 50)
According
to Harmer (2001:1) a lingua franca can be defined as a language widely adopted
for communication between two speaker whose native language are different from
each other’s and where one or both speakers are using it as a second language.
In other words, it is used for communication between two speaker who have
different native languages and they use more than one language as a second
language.
In
Indonesia English is taught at SMP (junior high school), SMU (senior high
school), in university, many courses and it has also been taught at SD (
elementary school). knowing that english is quite significant for indonesia in
the future,the goverment always makes effort to improve the quality of english
teaching. By improving the quality of teachers and other components in
educational proccess, hopefully the english teaching can improved. One of the
improvements of the english teaching deals with syllabus which is reflected in
the materials given to the students.
Data
from the school that, students have a low motivation to study english. They
think english is very difficult subject, Beside that english is the second
language in our country. so as a teacher we must creative to create new learning, in other that students think
english is very easy and fun to learn.
According
To School Based On Curriculum Degree 2006 (KTSP, 2006:278) the aim of the
english teaching in indonesia especially teaching english to junior high school
is to enable students to have the ability in developing communicative
competence in both oral and written form in achieving functional literacy
level, to have the awareness about the essence and the important of english in
increasing competition in global community, and the last is developing the
students comprehension about interelatedness between language and culture.
Speaking
is one of four basic skills in learning foreign language besides listening,
reading, and writing. It has been taught since the students entered a junior
school, however, there are some difficulties faced by junior high school
students to communicate in english. They have to think more often when speaking
english.of course students need interaction with others (teacher, friends,and
so on) to communicate. Since speech is power, act, manner of speaking (Hornby,
as.1995:828) and as stated in the New Book Of Knowledge, speech is one of man’s
most valuable possessions (Thomas,1997:376). Some teachers say that still have
difficulties to teach speaking to junior high school students since something
students are not able to express what is on their because their lack of actual
language.
If the students are not interested in the lesson, it will be
very difficult to make them understand the lesson. The teacher should always be
aware that the lack of interest would make the teacher fail in teaching.
English teachers have to create an interesting atmosphere in teaching learning
process because student’s ability of learning English depends on their previous
experience, and how the teacher attracts their feeling and interest. A teacher
should prepare simple way to make students’ interest in learning English.
To raise the students’ interest in learning speaking, there
is an approach called Pakem approach. Pakem
approach can make student active, creative, effective and joyful learning.
Many methods are used in Pakem: there are teacher talk
method, discussion method, demonstration method, role-play method, and stimulus
method. Beside that Pakem use many source and media include environment to make
learning become interesting, fun and effective. That is why The writer uses Pakem
approach as a way to make classroom activity more fun, and interesting to for
practicing speaking.
