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are quiet valid and reliable to asses students motivation. This study also adopted some questionnaires from International AMTB Research Project by Gardner. This AMTB is
the English-language version for use with students studying English as a foreign language. However, the researcher only took the questionnaires about motivation which
are suitable with this study. To strengthen the result of motivation, this study also conducted observation to
the English teaching and learning process. It is done to confirm the result of motivated students in questionnaires whether they truly have high motivation or not. Motivated
students can be seen by the observation of students’ persistence at tasks, the effort they expend to perform well, and how willingly they engage in tasks.
B. Speaking
1. The Definition of Speaking
Speaking is the essential skill among other language skills that must be learned by English students. It is as the major criterion to consider that the English students’
competence is good or lack. There are many definitions of speaking from English experts. However, the writer only chooses several definitions which are important to
talk about. According to Jo McDonough and Christopher Shaw, “speaking is a desire and
purpose-driven that may involve expressing ideas and opinions; expressing a wish or a desire to do something; negotiation and or solving a particular problem or establishing
and maintaining social relationship and friendship”.
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Besides Lynne Cameron’s definition, “speaking is the active use of language to express meanings so that peoples
can make senses of them”.
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From the definitions above, the writer conclude that speaking is a desire or a wish of person to express ideas, opinions and feelings to others, to negotiate, to solve
problems in order to make and to maintain interaction, social relationship, and friendship.
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Jo McDonough and Christopher Shaw, Materials and Method in ELT: A Teacher’s Guide, Cambridge: Blackwell Publisher, 1993, p. 152.
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Lynne Cameron, Teaching Language To Young Learners, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 40.
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The essential thing in speaking is practicing the language, because practices make us perfect. This skill is used by everyone to communicate in daily life whether at
school or outside school. It is can be done by two or more people to communicate, to share information and to achieve a particular goals.
2. The Goal of Speaking
Scrivener informs in his book, fluency and confidence are the important goals in the speaking class.
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From the statement above, it means that speaking exercises students to have fluency and confidence to communicate with others. Fluency is used to
describe the ability to communicate an intended message. Fluency is expected to be accurate in order to the listener easy to get the point of the message.
The goal of teaching speaking is to encourage students to develop ability to communicate and interact with others, to develop fluency and natural in expression and
to have bravery share their ideas, feeling and opinion to other people. Basically the goal of speaking is to communicate, as Henry Guntur Tarigan says:
“the particular aim of speaking is to communicate”. Speech has three general goals: “to inform, to entertain and to persuade”.
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3. Kinds of Speaking Activity
