A STUDY ON TEACHING SPEAKING
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the researcher presents seven topics related
to this research. Those include background of the
research, statement of the research problems,
objectives of the research, significance of the research, scope and limitation
of the research, definition of key terms.
A. Background
of the Research
Language is an instrument to express an idea, opinion, mind,
and feeling. Current in Diane Larsen (1986)
describe that language is for communication.
Moreover, nowadays, language is supposed to
be important to be learned in all countries
in the world. Almost all of the countries in the world use English as the
second or become the foreign language. English is one of the important
languages that must be mastered in the international communications.
There are four skills that must
be mastered in teaching learning English, there
are listening, writing, reading, and speaking.
The most important one of them is speaking.
Ur (1991: 120) states “Of all the four
skills, speaking is considered to be able to be the most important
skill. Learning speaking becomes the greatest interest for foreign language
learners”. Besides, Richards (2002:201) states “A large percentage of the
world’s language learners study English in order to develop proficiency in
speaking”. In short, the ability of English is measured by its result
in speaking skill or oral communication.
Speaking is one of the four language skills which
should be develop in teaching English in line with Hedges??????????????
