g. Stress, rhythm, and intonation
This is the most important characteristic of English pronunciation. The stress-timed rhythm of spoken English and
its intonation patterns convey important messages. h.
Interaction In the speaking activity, learning to produce waves of
language in a vacuum would rob speaking skill of its richest component and the creativity of conversational negotiation.
Rivers 1981:187 adds, such features as pitch intonation, stress and duration, assimilation, juncture, elisions, liaisons at word
boundaries, and expensive features like tone of voice and gesture are often all but ignored. The problems of teaching speaking are as
follows: Students’ motivation,
Students’ reluctance to involve themselves, Grouping the students,
Teaching media, Classroom management,
Assessment techniques, etc.
4. Some Solutions
According to Littlewood 1981: 17-18, to cope with the problems mention above, the teachers may refer to the communicative
actions, such as:
a. To provide “whole-task practice”
Whole task practice allows the students to practice the language not only in the part of skills, but also in the total skill. In this
session, the teacher provides the learners with various kinds of communicative activities and organizes them in order to suit
the ability level of the learner. b.
To improve motivation As learners’ final objective in learning a language is to
participate in communication with others, their motivation to learn is more likely to be maintained if their classroom learning
can help them to accomplish this objective with increasing success.
c. To allow natural learning
Because many aspects of language learning take place through natural processes, they operate well then the learner uses in the
real and natural communication. d.
To create a context which supports learning Activities which provide opportunities for positive personal
relationship between the students and the teacher and create an environment that can support individual effort in learning are
those that enable the students to communicate well. Communicate activities are ones to be mentioned to fulfill
those requirements.
Teachers also need to have knowledge and understand the role of the teaching speaking including setting, student
motivation, learner’s factor, media, etc. The teaching-learning process needs cooperation between the learners and the
teacher. Teachers should be creative and are also able to modify their teaching techniques if it is possible. The teachers
also need to make the students highly motivated in learning English.
5. Teaching Speaking Communicatively
The activity in English classroom should be encouraging the students to be able to communicate in English. It is happens to
increase the students’ motivation in learning English. The teacher use some steps to imp
rove the students’ motivation and ability in learning English in the classroom. The activity in Mingling Games technique
