2.7 Interpersonal and Transactional Conversation in Speaking
There are wide events in which we use speaking skill in our daily life, it can be speech, reading powm, reporting news, and delivering ceremonial event.
However, the speaking activity people must get involved in is conversation, a dialogic communication between tow or more participants. As we use it in
everyday of our life, we can call conversation as a basic speaking activity human have.
School Based Curriculum 2007:277 mentiones that there are two kinds of conversations the students of junior high school should learn. They are
interpersonal and transactional conversation. Interpersonal conversation lies its function for social purposes. Greetings, apologies, compliments, invitations, and
other functions are the example of functions in this conversation. Meanwhile, transactional conversation holds transactional exchanges people usually involved
in activities such as obtaining information and making purchase. Since this study is majoring transactional conversation, we will focus our
discussion in this area only. Transactional conversation is a basic speaking activity in our daily life. Take for example, everyone must need help from other
people and, on the contrary, we sometimes are eager to help the others. Therefore, learning transactional conversation is important since we use it in our daily life.
By learning transactional conversation the students are expected to be able to interact with their closest environment.
To use transactional conversation well, speakers must concern about many things, such as: the relationship between the speakers or degree of formality, turn
taking, negotiation, correction, and other technical term. Therefore, teaching transactional conversation to the students should include such things, besides
vocabularies and purpose of the speaking.
2.8 Teaching Speaking Using Conversation Video
Kategori