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students can improve their ways to express themselves with acceptable pronunciation and dictions.
b. Problem in Speaking Skill
According to Richards 2008, while practicing speaking skill, the students often meet some problems. There is a lack of vocabulary which needed to talk
about common utterances. For the leaners, the vocabularies are different with native speakers. Usually, the vocabularies are simpler, so when they meet
uncommon vocabularies they will get difficulties on how to respond it. Besides, speaking slowly and takes too long to compose utterances. Learning new language
especially in practice speaking skill needs extra time. However, learners are not really familiar with foreign language. When the students try to produce sentences
in second language acquisition, their brains work harder. They also cannot participate actively in the conversation.
There is a possibility for the learners that they cannot involve themselves well in the middle of conversation with the second language acquisition. It is
caused when they are in the middle of conversation; they have to do two activities. Those activities are understanding the conversation and trying to
produce sentences in order to response the conversation. Having poor grammar is also problem for learners. In order to avoid grammatical mistake in speaking
activities, it is important for students to learn the theories of English. One of the difficulties in training speaking skill is the learners have limited knowledge of
grammar. Understanding about grammar is important to support students’ PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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speaking skill. Another problem is poor pronunciation. Pronunciation is a crucial thing.
Learning how to pronounce words is important. According to Derwing and Murno 2005, pronunciation helps the learners to communicate normally and can be
understood easily. Those five problems in speaking skill do not appear without reasons.
c. Causes of Poor Speaking Skill
There are some reasons for poor speaking skill, Richards 2008. The first is lack of curriculum emphasis on speaking skills. Traditional thought assumes
that learning English is only about understanding the rules of grammar and being able to apply minimum requirement in the written form. That is why sometimes
speaking skill is ignored. The fact is a speaking skill should be trained to get better result of learning English.
The second is the teachers’ limited English proficiency. English teachers who are needed by students not only teachers who understand how to make a
good paragraph without any grammatical mistakes. It is easier for the students to learn how to train their speaking skill if the teachers are also good speakers. The
third is class’ conditions do not facilitate oral activities. Every learning process is started with a conducive class. It can be said conducive when the students and
teachers can learn together. The forth is limited chances outside of class to practice their speaking
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