Improving The Students’
Speaking Ability Through Problem Based Learning Strategy
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Speaking skill is one
of the difficult activities in learning English. It is one form to get
information through oral communication in the world. It is become mare and more
useful for everyone who wants to learn
about English.
In most conversation, the world flows with
just the least of mental urge. People think about what to say, who they are
talking to, where they are, and they also need to know how many times to talk.
So, focusing on their accuracy and fluency is the main learning process to get
developing of the students in their speaking performance.
Moreover,
the students get optimal standard achievement in speaking because they do not
know what their aims to speak English, the condition and situation in the
classroom have not been designed naturally for speaking, and the student still
lack in use vocabulary, correct grammatical and acceptable interaction.
Therefore, the teacher must regard how the classroom interaction should best be
designed to cater the students’ communication need. In this case for improving
the students’ speaking ability, the writer is going to carry out the research
that emphasize on the aspect of learning goal, creating the learning process (La
Costa in Sanjaya:2006:105). This strategy is the named “Problem Based Learning
Strategy”.
According to M. Taufik Amir,
(2009:8) the students should be active in learning process in choosing to
formulate the information, construct the information, consider and reflect the
students experience to determine how
knowledge can be transferred to
all situations.
Wilkerson
and Gijselears (1996:86) claim that problem based learning (PBL) is
characterized by a student- centered approach, teacher as “facilitators rather
than disseminators, and open ended problem that “serve as the initial stimulus
and framework for learning.
Gallstudentagher
(1997:337) the instructor plays a critical role in helping students become
self-directed learners and must create classroom environment in which students
“receive systematic instruction in conceptual, strategic, and reflective
reasoning in the context of discipline that will ultimately make them more
successful in later investigation.
