Suggestion for the Future Researchers Suggestion for Teaching Speaking Using Literature
56 hear and make some contributions at high speed 70. Speaking in English at high
speed needs good grammar accuracy, vocabulary mastering, and a lot of practice. In teaching speaking, teachers do not merely teach the students to speak
but they have to foster life moral values in their students. They can use many sources such as newspaper, magazine, or literary works. Literary work like novel
is a good source to teach speaking because there are many moral values written implicitly in a novel. Moreover, the story of a novel can amuse the students so
that they will not feel bored and they also can improve their vocabulary and grammar skill through a novel. Besides using many sources, teachers have to
make the teaching-learning activities interesting. They can use games, role-plays, debates or story telling. In this study, the writer implements the use of literary
work that is The Buddha, Geoff and Me novel to teach speaking through debate. The procedures of teaching speaking using The Buddha, Geoff and Me
novel are as follow: 1. The teacher explains briefly about the information of The Buddha, Geoff
and Me novel. 2. The teacher explains how to conduct a debate.
3. The teacher distributes the selected quotations of The Buddha, Geoff and Me novel.
4. The teacher divides the students into several groups. Each group consists of seven students where one student will be the chairperson, three of them
will be the pro-side and the other three will be the cons-side. 5. The teacher gives each group a topic to be debated.
57 6. The teacher gives the students time to prepare their arguments.
7. The teacher invites each group to come in front and start the debate.
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APPENDICES
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APPENDIX A SUMMARY
Everything is going wrong in Eds life. Dumped by his girlfriend Angie, he is in
a horrible job with a horrible boss on an internet magazine, ItsTheBusiness.com,
teetering on the brink of closure. He meets Geoff on a lunchtime drink in a pub. A beer-
drinking, roll-up smoking 53-year-old with a slight pot belly, Geoff is not how Ed
pictured a Buddhist since he is a little bit of an alcoholic. He gets Ed to help him unblock the pub lavatory. From that moment
on, they become friend. Ed always shares his problems with Geoff and Geoff will give him some suggestions.
Problems are just facts, says Geoff. Its our attitude towards them that makes us suffer or not. The strong actually go out seeking challenges. This
infuriates Ed. At first Ed fights Geoffs suggestions tooth and claw. Slowly, Ed can accept them. Geoff can show Ed a way out. Its your life state, mate. I told
you the second time I met you: if your life conditions low all this negative stuff just appears, like the rocks at low tide. Theyre always there, but when the tides in
- when your life condition is high - they disappear. You literally rise above it all... ItsTheBusiness.com goes bankrupt. Ed loses his job and feels so
depressed. Geoff suggests him to meet Dora of Personal Personnel, an employment agency, who sets his life goals in order. No longer is Ed blocked like
the pubs pipes at the beginning of the novel. He is able to embark on a new career and existence in general, but not instantly. Dora has successfully set a job
interview for Ed in the Writers Inc. and he is accepted there. This job does not last long since financial crisis hit the company and they have to let Ed go. He becomes
62 jobless and out of money so that he agree to help Geoff’s friend, Pier, as a garden
laborer for three days. On the last day, when Ed is going home, he meets Angie, his ex-girlfriend. Ed is so happy and hopes that he can get her back, but this
meeting is ended with arguing. After his job as a garden laborer ends, Ed comes to Dora to get a new job.
This time, Ed gets a job at Regence House, where he has to try to rent out an office space. While he is working in Regence House, he accidentally knows the
truth that Geoff is a window-cleaner. At first Ed is very angry because Geoff does not tell him about his job but then he can accepts it. One night, Ed gets so drunk
so that he cannot work in the next morning. His job is handled by another person who has the ability to work twice as well as Ed and it makes him fired from
Regence House. Ed feels so awful facing the reality that he loses his job again. Once again Ed looks for Dora. Dora asks him to meet Liz, a TV producer
and he gets a job as a freelance script-reader. The unpredictable thing happens, Geoff dies because of heart-attack. Ed is so sad because of Geoff’s death since he
admires Geoff very much. After Geoff’s death, he tries to imitate him. He becomes a Buddhist and changes his life.
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APPENDIX B ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Edward canfor-Dumas is an award- winning TV scriptwriter and novelist.
After winning a scholarship to Latymer Upper School in west London, he read
English Literature at New College, Oxford. Soon after graduating he
started penning comedy scripts for radio and television, including BBC
Radio 4s Weekending and Not The Nine OClock News for BBC TV. A period working in business television followed, during which he scripted some sixty
videos for a wide range of commercial and public organisations - Volkswagen, BMW, British Tourist Authority, COI, Du Pont and many others.
Eddy returned to television when he started writing for popular series such as The Bill more than twenty episodes and Kavanagh QC. His first major
feature-length programme was Tough Love, a powerful drama about police corruption, starring Ray Winstone. He then wrote the drama for the highly-
acclaimed BBC drama-documentary Pompeii: The Last Day 2003, which was nominated for a BAFTA, and followed this in 2005 with Supervolcano. He
branched out into novels in the same year, with The Buddha, Geoff and Me, based on Buddhist teachings. A practising Buddhist himself since 1983, Eddy is a
member of the lay group Soka Gakkai International SGI. Eddy also ghosted the non-fiction book The Buddha in Daily Life 1988 for Richard Causton, which has
now been in print continuously for almost twenty years. Apart from his writing work, Eddy is active as Chair of the pressure group
ministry for peace, which campaigns for a ministry within government dedicated to working for peace at home and abroad. It was in this capacity that he took a
64 lead role in establishing the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues,
which was launched in February 2007. The following year Eddy saw the fulfilment of a long-held ambition to publish an online magazine. This Way Up
first appeared on 16 March 2008 and is a mixture of articles and interactive items designed to stimulate the positive and entertain. Eddy is married with two
children and lives in Hertfordshire, UK.
Taken from: http:www.thebuddhageoffandme.compage4.htm
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APPENDIX C
Syllabus
KPE 207 Public Speaking I English Language Education Study Program
Revision 0 Effective from 20 August 2007
Credit
2 credits
Time Allocation
2 x 50 minutes class meeting, 2 x 120 minutes independent work and structured
tasks
Study Program
English Language Education Study Program
Course Coordinator
Drs. Concilianus Laos Mbato, M.A.
Lecturers
Drs. Concilianus Laos Mbato, M.A. Dr. J. Bismoko
Grading Policy