THE
CORRELATION BETWEEN BRAINSTORMING AND SPEAKING ABILITY
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background of the Problem
The
teaching of English covers four skills, namely reading, writing, speaking and
listening. Listening and reading are said to be receptive, while speaking and
writing are said to be productive. Of four language skills above, the writer
focuses on speaking and writing since they are productive skills which enable
people to communicate skill which enable us to produce utterances, when
genuinely to communicate, speaking is desire and purpose-driven. In other
words, we genuinely want to communicate something to achieve a particular end.
Since
speaking is a skill which enables us to communicate, it is very important as
Nunan (1991:39) states that most people mastering the art of speaking is single
most important aspect of learning a second or foreign language, and success is
measured in terms of the ability to carry out a conversation in the language.
We
cannot deny that mastering speaking is not easy, so learners need extra efforts
to master the skill. Therefore, English teachers are demanded to be more
creative in presenting their lessons, especially the speaking subject since it
is considered as the difficult skill to be master ed, learning to speak is
obviously more difficult than learning to understand the spoken language. More
effort is required on part of the students, and more sequential arrangement of
activities is required on the part of the teachers. Rasyid in Rahman (1995)
also points out that most students of English need to learn how to use the
language rather than how to analyze it. They will do this best if they
themselves practice the language.
The
Way which enables people to communicate namely in Brainstorming. According to
Isaksen (1998: 3) brainstorming is abbreviated summary of how Osborn actually
presented this well-known group approach to idea generation is given.
The
students tend to find many difficulties to produce a good speaking in English.
Sometimes they find the difficulties in finding ideas and getting confused to
start, they do not know how to arrange the vocabulary which they into good
sentences and no encourage to write probably because they are confused with the
structure.
From
the explanation above the writer realizes that there are correlation between
the speaking ability of the students and brainstorming, so that the writer
conceit, the research under the title “THE
CORRELATION BETWEEN BRAINSTORMING AND SPEAKING ABILITY”.
