English for Teens Teaching Language

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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter consists of two parts, namely the theoretical description and the theoretical framework. In the theoretical description, there are sources used to support and to guide the research. The theoretical description covers theories of English for teens, theory of teaching speaking, theory of Audio Lingual Method, and the Curriculum of SMK BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. In theoretical framework, the researcher explains the benefit of the theories and how the theories used in the study.

A. Theoretical Description

In the theoretical description, the study presents some theories in order to broaden the topic. The theoretical description consists of English for teens, teaching speaking, teaching language, the audio lingual method and the curriculum of SMK BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta.

1. English for Teens

Based on the research of youth’s characteristics conducted by American Academy of Pediatrics 1991, teens are the people whose ages are between 15 up to 19 years old. Teens cannot control their development of adolescence successfully. Teens’ characteristics are different from children’s and adults’. The students of XI AP class are categorized as teens whose ages are between 15-19 years old. There are some characteristics of adolescence based on physical growth characteristics, intellectual characteristics and social and emotional characteristics 11 according to the research of American Academy of Pediatrics 1991. American Academy of Pediatrics 1991 reported that the intellectual characteristics of teens are that they can solve problems better, think about their future, appreciate opinions of others, and understand the long and short-term memory. The students have the long terms and short-term memory in the case of learning English. In the long-term, the students will remember some memories that happened some years ago. Then, the short-term memory is that the teens can remember some memories in short time ago. There are some social charcteristics teens had based on Amarican Academy of Pediatrics 1991. The social charcteristics are teens prefer having more experiences with their friends rather than with their family. When teens feel more comfort to have activities with their close friends who they meet in their particular group, they will build a group of close friends. For their emotional characteristic, teens get depressed-sadness, lasting more than two weeks, and it is not normal. Nevertheless, when teens have problems, they will become more emotional than adults.

2. Teaching Language

Language is a vital tool. It is not only for communicating thoughts and ideas, but it also forges friendships, cultural ties, and economic relationships Kilgour, 1999. Language is an important knowledge that should be taught to the students. Language describes the culture of a country and language becomes the tool of communication. The English language is a tool of communication among people in the world because English is the international language. 12 Nunan 2003 states that English has four basic skills which must be learned in school. Those are listening and reading as the receptive skills, and writing and speaking as the productive skills. The students can find those skills during their study in school. Speaking is one of the skills that must be mastered in communication through English language. English is a tool of communication between countries, cultural groups, various companies and organizations, communities and friends Kilgour, 1999.

3. Teaching Speaking