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give the same comment to everyone all the time. The lecturers also need to make sure their comments have clear and not ambiguous meaning. Furthermore,
learning is not about getting a high mark only. The lecturers should value progress and improvement higher than the result. The feedback given should be motivating
that the students are encouraged to perform better. It also needs to encourage the students to learn from one another.
2. Speaking learning progress in the English Language Education Study
Program ELESP in Sanata Dharma University
Speaking is one of the most important skills a language student should have and learn. It serves as an underlying part of talking and meaningful interaction in
social activity Luoma, 2004. Therefore, speaking is one of the main language skills that is learned in language learning study program. In the ELESP
curriculum, the progress of achieving speaking skill is divided into five compulsory courses. The courses are Speaking I, Speaking II, Critical Listening
and Speaking 1, Critical Listening and Speaking 2, and Public Speaking. The learning progress takes place gradually since the first semester to the fifth
semester. Speaking 1 is the first course that the students should take in their first
semester in the ELESP. Throughout the semester, the students are encouraged to practice some expressions such as greeting, leave taking, introducing and other
common communicative functions. They also learn how to keep a conversation going. The second course is Speaking 2, which should be taken in the second
semester. The focus of this course is to encourage the students to express their PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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personal feelings and opinions. The students are expected to enrich their vocabulary words, technical terms and expressions and be able to use them
appropriately. The students are required to take Critical Listening and Speaking 1 in their
third semester. This course aims to improve the student s’ listening and speaking
skills and also develop their strategic skills. In terms of speaking ability, the students are required to utilize the strategic skills and present the spoken response
to the given topics. Students should integrate what they have learned in structure, vocabulary and pronunciation class into their speaking ability. Their grammar,
diction, and pronunciation will be some of the scoring criteria. The Critical Listening and Speaking 2 that should be taken in the fourth semester is a
continuation of Critical Listening and Speaking 1 in the previous semester. This course still deals with improving the student
s’ strategic skills, but the given topics are more complicated than the previous ones. The students are expected to
response to these topics using the strategic skill. In this course, the student s’
grammar, diction and pronunciation also become some criteria of a good speech. In the fifth semester, the students are to take Public Speaking. Public
speaking in general and public speaking course in the ELESP will be discussed further in the next section.
3. Public Speaking in the ELESP of Sanata Dharma University
Speaking can be distinguished into chatting and information-related talk.
Chatting is a conversational exchange between two or more people who take turn to talk. It aims at maintaining social interaction or contact to other people.
