The Improving the Students’ Speaking Skill By Using Direct Method
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
of the Study
In learning
English, there are four skills we must study. They are listening, speaking,
reading, and writing. The four skills mentioned are divided into receptive and
productive skills. Speaking and writing are productive skills, while listening
and reading are receptive skills. Beside the four language skills above, Speaking
is the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and
non-verbal symbols. Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and
teaching. However, today’s world requires that the goal of teaching speaking
should improve student’s communicative kills because students can
express themselves and learn how to use a language.
Language is means of communication, and it is an integral
part of human life. Therefore, everyone must be able to use it in speaking, to
master speaking skill is one of the difficulties in learning English. Speaking
is one way of finding information through oral communication in the world
becomes more and more useful. According to the curriculum, the teaching English
in Indonesia should emphasize four skills, namely reading, listening, writing,
and speaking. To know English perfectly these four skills should be taught
separately. However, the students’ in general can read and write English better
than speak it. According to Rasyid stated that the teaching of English in
Indonesian school has become perceived and realized need. The perception and
realization of this need are based on the nation wide. Assumption that good
mastery of the language will instrumentally function not only as the key to
many doors to development
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.
Those condition
probably caused by their lack of knowledge or there is not idea toward the
material being tough, and also the techniques or methods are used not
interesting for the students. Those cases are very influence the students
learning achievement. Therefore, this research wants to improve the speaking
proficiency of the students because many students have less skill in speaking.
Especially in at
the eleventh grade SMA have a same problem in speaking the students
sometimes face many problems in learning English specially in speaking, for
example the student are shy to speak, low motivation, less self confidence,
afraid of making mistakes, the students sometimes are reluctant to speak
English, and the students look confuse if the teacher call one by one of them
came in front of class to performance their speaking because they do not know
what their aims to speak, so their speak English grows slowly and also states
that many students who wants speak other usually faces some troubles such as
cannot produce their ideas, argument feeling communicatively. They sometimes
can understand what other say but can not be able to communicate it.
Today, the
teachers/educators have been trying some methods, strategies and techniques in
teaching English to make the students easy to understand the language and
applied it in their life. One of the ways in teaching English is using strategy
as apart that cannot separate in education. Strategy refers to a plan of action designed to
achieve a particular goal.
The direct
method, which arrived at the end of the ninetieth century, was the product of
reform movement which was reacting to the restrictions of grammar translation.
Translation was abandoned in favors of the teacher and the students speaking
together, relating the grammatical forms they were studying to objects and
pictures, etc. in order to establish their meaning. The sentence was still the main
object of interest, and accuracy was all important
The direct method
has one basic rule and that is that no translation is allowed. The meaning of
the name ―Direct Method‖ comes from the fact that meaning is to be conveyed
directly into the second language though
demonstration and visual aids.
Therefore the
researcher would like to carry out a research in teaching and learning English
process to deeply investigate “The Improving the Students’ Speaking Skill By Using Direct Method.
