education council formulate and develop programs that can improve the quality of learning.
3 Democratic and professional leadership Developing and running curriculum are supported by school‟s democratic and
professional leadership. Headmaster together with teachers as the organizer of curriculum are people who have an ability and professional integrity.
4 Cohesive and transparant work-team Succesful in developing and running curriculum is suported by the cohesive
and transparant work-team. In education council and school commitee, all side work together without any authority.
2.2.5 Speaking Based on School-Based Curriculum
English is a mean of communication both in spoken and written language. Communication is about the understanding and comprehending the information,
mind, feeling and developing the knowledge, technology, and culture. The comprehension completely can be defined as discourse competence, i.e. the
comprehension of mastering or producing spoken or written text which is realized on four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
For all teaching situations, all four skills do not have to be treated in depth in balance because different teaching situations require different emphasis on
each skill. The teaching learning process of English in senior high school, especially the speaking skill, is
concerned in the learners‟ ability to communicate in English in daily life to reach informational literacy level.
In all contexts, people use the language in order to complete the function or to get the prominent meaning. Moreover, the School-Based Curriculum in the
speaking skill is also directed to complete the function above. Teaching speaking based on the School-Based Curriculum emphasizes on building up the
negotiation. By negotiation it is hoped that the students are able to build up a spoken text. A spoken text is about the unity of the meaning and semantic units.
There are three functions of speaking: 1
Ideational function It is the language function which is used in order to construct the idea or
information. 2
Interpersonal function It is the language function which is used in order to interact with others and
express the speech acts, behaviors, feeling, etc. 3
Textual function It is the function in how the text or language which is composed are reconstruct,
so it can reach the cohesion and coherence, then it is used to make the language easy to be understood by learners or the reader. Departemen Pendidikan
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2.3 Theoretical Framework
Based on the function above, it is very important to select a good textbook so that the textbook can help the students easily understand the materials which the
teacher gives. In this study, I analyzed the speech functional expressions found in
