Background of The Study Scope of the Study Objective of the Study

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of The Study

Language is a tool of communication. It plays an important role in human life. Peoples can not be separated from language because it is one of their needs for communication. As human being, one interacts with another through communication. The understanding of language is not limited in our own language. We need to understand other languages. Especially, the International language which will enable us to communicate to another people with different languages, or for International communication. There are so many languages that we can learn as our second or foreign languages. English is an International language. There are four skills that have to be mastered in learning English, they are: listening skills, reading skills, writing skills, and speaking skills. These are four skills have the close relation that finally makes people able to speak. Speaking is a course. According to Harefa 2006, the main purpose of the course is to teach communicative competence, that is, the ability to communicative in English according to the situation, purpose and roles of the participants. Speaking is a language skill that used to communicate directly, face to face with other people. Speaking is very important in language skill. Realizing that facts, I am interested in explaining anymore that speaking activity is a skill in language to do the effective communication and also has many Universitas Sumatera Utara advantages which is very important to be known. The most important is to increase the knowledge.

1.2 Scope of the Study

In this paper, I will discuss about the language skills, but I limit the discussion only on the way to be a professional speaker of English. It is considered to identify the basic skill in speaking activity and explain the stages in speaking in the target language English correctly.

1.3 Objective of the Study

Dealing with the background of study, the objective of this writing is I want to inform the readers that speaking in English is not difficult and it is really interesting.

1.4 Significance of the Study