IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH
COMMUNITY INTERACTION ACTIVITIES AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMAN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Speaking is active or productive and
makes use of the aural medium. If we think of speaking in term of use, however,
the situation was rather different. To begin with an act of communication
trough speaking was commonly performed in face to face interaction and occurs
as part of dialogue or other form of verbal exchange.” (Widdowson, 1983: 58)
The students had problem in speaking such as pronunciation, grammar,
vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. They seldom practice their speaking in
class. They just study about memorizing the conversations, after that they
practice their friends without know what was the meaning and how to speak
the sentences well. It makes students lower in speaking and than student does
not creative in speaking.
The teacher in teaching English just uses
traditionally method, like speech method to explain the material until finish.
It makes students bored. In other hand the teacher does not use media and they
never changed the method. And than teacher just gives test the student without
explain first, beside that the teacher just ask to students to memorize the
conversation and than ask them to practice it.
Students need something different in
study English, specially speaking. Study speaking is study about communication
and interaction with people. To make interaction we need object to do it, such
as community. In community there was social relationship and need interaction
to make relation with the same community or different community. From interaction
can do activities and can stimulate student to speak with their friends or to
do role play like in a community interaction activities method. When students
always practice their speaking, students can improve their ability. Beside
that, students need something to ????
