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states that TEFL means that English which has foreign language status in a country which is taught to the students and it is not used for daily communication.
Through this definition, it is clear that teaching English in some countries, for example in Indonesia, is regarded as teaching English as foreign language
because English is not spoken by its people in informal and or daily communication and only spoken by people in other countries.
B. Speaking Skills
This chapter discusses some relevant theories which are related to speaking skills. In this discussion, nine important points are presented. Those are
speaking definition, speaking ability, types of spoken language, characteristics of spoken language, micro and macro skills in speaking, types of classroom
speaking performance, language features in speaking, classroom speaking activities, and teaching speaking to junior high school students.
1. Speaking Definition
The definitions of speaking are variously stated by some experts. Hornby 1995: 1140 states that speaking means an activity to knowing and being able to
use expressions in a particular or target language which is learnt. In addition, Harmer 2001: 269 states that speaking is not only the ability to speak fluently
with appropriate language features, but also the ability to express messages properly of information and language that is learnt. Moreover, the other expert,
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Spratt, argues that speaking involves speakers to use utterances to create speech to express meanings and communicate messages to other people Spratt, et.al,
2005: 34. Based on these definitions, it can be concluded that the students should be able to communicate the message using correct expressions and language
features in their speaking skill. Some people think that if they want to be able to speak fluently in
English, they need to be able to pronounce phonemes correctly, use appropriate stress and intonation patterns and speak in connected speech. However, speaking
is not all about pronouncing words but speaking is more than it. Supporting this statement, Harmer 2007: 56 states that there are different genres and situations
which exist as the context of speaking by the speakers of English who have to be able communicate any message in order to be understood by other people.
Therefore, it can be stated that the main purpose of speaking is to deliver and communicate a message understandably to others not only paying attention to the
pronunciation, but also dealing with the language functions and language features.
There are some genres as the context in speaking. As stated by Thornbury 2005: 14, there are four speaking genres; they are interactive, non-interactive,
planned and unplanned. The example of interactive speaking happens when people buy food at a shop. Meanwhile, the example of non-interactive happens
when people leave a written message, such as memo, sms, or email. It can be
