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5 Interpersonal dialogue
It is also carried out in a dialogue that is purposed for maintaining social relationships than for the transmission of fact and information. The
examples are interview, role play, discussions, conversations, and games. 6
Extensive monologue It refers to the extended monologues in the form of oral reports,
summaries or perhaps short speeches. The types of classroom speaking performance proposed by Brown above can
help the teachers in the process of teaching and learning speaking especially in designing the students’ speaking activities and measuring their speaking skill.
f. Teaching speaking in junior high school
The subject of this research is the eight grade students at SMP Negeri 2 Kalasan. The students of junior high school are still classified as young learners. It
is the important roles for teacher to know the students’ characteristics while teaching. Cameron 2001 states that the teacher do not only need to have the
knowledge of language, language learning, and languange teaching, but also need to know about the children’s world, how they learn, and how to manage the
children. Harmer 2001 states that there are some characteristics of young learners,
such as: 1. They pay more attention to meaning rather than to individual word.
2. They learn indirectly through the environment around them rather than focus on the materials which are taught to them.
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3. They learn something not only from the explanation but also from the interaction and form what they see, hear, and touch.
4. They generally have enthusiasm and the curiosity about everything around them.
5. They need attention and approval from the teacher. 6. They are interested in talking about themselves or their life.
7. They have limited attention, especially for passive activities. Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that young learners
tend to like to learn something they like, something interesting for them, something related to their imagination, something from their environment that is
close to their life and something involving physical movement. Also, they like to learn something from what they see, hear, and touch and respond the language
well through concrete things rather than abstract thing. That is why the teacher should be able to utilize right media match with their characteristics.
Based on School-based Curriculum, the main goal of learning English in Junior High School is to make the students to be able to able participate in
discourse or to communicate idea, feelings, etc. in spoken and written English accurately, fluently, and in acceptable manners. The successful of the
implementation of School-based Curriculum may rely on some factors. These factors include a complete readiness of the teacher’s language proficiency, the
teacher’s language teaching, and the teacher’s ability to media or tools in the teaching and learning process. If those factors are fulfilled, the main goal of the
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implementation of School-based Curriculum which is to develop students’ competencies will be achieved.
g. The use of media in teaching speaking
