28 student should be able to produce naturally the language which has been presented to
him and which he has practiced in various more or less controlled situation
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. It means that speaking ability is a form of productive skill verbally which the students
can practice the speaking English naturally based on the context. Meanwhile, Luoma states that speaking skill are an important part of the curriculum
in language teaching, and this makes them an important object of assessment as well. Assessing speaking is challenging, however, because we expect test scores to be
accurate, just and appropriate for our purpose
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. It means to know the students’ speaking ability, it can be measured with the appropirate assessment.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher concludes that the speaking ability is verbal intellegence in producting language naturally to achieve to communicative
competence measuredby five criteria: grammar, vocabularry, comprehension, fluency and pronunciation.
7. Assessment of Speaking
According to Brown, a teacher should provide the widest possible opportunity for students to interact, both with the teacher, subject matter as well as with other
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Geoffrey Broughton, et al. Teaching English as Foreign Language 2
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Ed. New York: Routledge, 1980, P.82.
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Sari Louma, Assessing Speaking, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, P1.
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. Each assessment in a learning should be directed to learning itself. Assessment is an attempt to measure the achievement of the goals set. Assessment
can be oriented in products and processes. Product-oriented assessment is an assessment focused on the end result of a process of learning and assessment is trying
to see how the process through which to produce a product.
Arends in Alwasilah said that assessment has six types, there are: 1. Performance assessment
Performance assessment done to see the results perform students in speaking, in this type students usually given problem situation used to test students perform.
2. Authentic assessment Authentic assessment is similar with perform assessment. In this assessment the
students given a real life setting. While in authentic assessment or assessment perform, things to note that the assessment should focus on the skills of the students.
3. Portfolio assessment Portfolio assessment is done by assessing the works of students in the form of
journals, essays and other excercises.
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Assessment study focused on the student works in using learning potential. 5. Assessment of group effort
Assessment group is the assessment made at the time students do working group. 6. Checklists and rating scales
Assessment checklist is systematically prepared based on certain criteria and indicators so that the teacher is marking the time of assessment and based on the
results of the checklist on each indicator and then the teacher do the final assessment is based on a predetermined scale
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. Assessment is a way to know outcome of the students ability to learning. In assessing
each capability requires its own way, the performance assessment, autentik, portfolios, learning potential, the assessment within a group and checklists. In
learning speaking usually used performance assessment because students are based on assessed result of their performance in the classroom, when they are convey their
expression, storytelling, or when they convey the information. Assessment is done not only to assess student learning outcomes but also assess students learning process
by looking at students abilities. Assess students speaking ability is not an easy thing to do. The success of a teaching can be known the results through increased learning
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process.
7. The Concept of Teaching Speaking
