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 ??????
