focuses on fluency and provides the students with an opportunity to personalise the language learnt by doing less controlled tasks and
using their own ideas. In this stage, using the role play cards, the researcher asked the students to perform their role play in front of the
classroom.
d. Teaching speaking in vocational high school
Teaching speaking to vocational high school students tends to be different compared to that for high school students. It is similar to teaching
English for Specific Purposes because students of vocational high schools learn in one major programme which leads them to a specific career.
Based on Permendiknas 2006 No.23, teaching English in Vocational High School is divided into three levels. Those are Novice level for the tenth
grade, Elementary level for the eleventh grade, and Intermediate level for the twelfth grade. There is also a number of standard graduate competencies of
Vocational High Schools which stated in Permendiknas 2006 No.23. The table below shows the standard graduate competencies of English for the
tenth grade students of Vocational High Schools.
Table 1: The Tenth Gr ade Students’ Standard Graduate Competencies
Skill Graduates Competencies
Listening Understanding meaning in both interpersonal and
transactional oral expressions, either formal or informal, in listening requests and commands related
to daily activities.
Speaking Expressing meaning orally in both interpersonal and
transactional expressions, either formal or informal, in delivering request and commands related to daily
activities.
Reading Understanding meaning in both interpersonal and
transactional written expressions, either formal or informal, in reading requests and commands
related to daily activities.
Writing Expressing meaning in both interpersonal and
transactional expressions, either formal or informal, in delivering requests and commands related to daily
activities in written form.
In order to reach the graduate competencies above, there are standard competences and basic competences set by the Education
Ministry for the tenth grade students of Vocational High Schools. The lists of the standard competences and basic competences are mentioned in
the table below.
Table 2: The Standard of Competence and Basic Competencies of the Tenth Grade Students of Vocational High School
Standard of Competence
Basic Competencies Microskills
1. Communicating
in English equal to Novice Level.
1.3 Describing things,
people, characteristics, time,
day, month, and year. Using the
correct grammatical
word classes, pattern and
tense in producing
utterances with the
appropriate
Standard of Competence
Basic Competencies Microskills
phrases.
1.4 Producing simple
utterances that are enough for basic
functions. Using the
correct tense, patterns, and
rules in producing
utterances with the appropriate
phrases, pause, and breathe
groups.
Finally, it is decided that this study will focus on the process of learning of the students in mastering the language. It starts by identifying the
kinds of uses of language the learners is expected to be able to master at the end of a given period of instruction.
e. Assessing speaking
