conditions, it is expected that students can speak fluently and accurately and students‘ achievements in speaking can be assessed optimally as well.
3. Teaching English in High School
a. Teaching Speaking in High School
The curriculum of Indonesian education system has applied School- Based Curriculum, which means that every school has an authority to run the
school effectively. This curriculum enables for each school to have more opportunities to achieve the goals of the education. Caldwell and Spinks
1998 in Yuwono 2005 define School-Based Management as the self- managing school, and it has an authority to make decision related to the
allocation of resources. In this case, the school can develop anything which can help the school to reach the goals.
In School-Based Curriculum, English has been regarded as compulsory subject. It is taught as a foreign language in elementary, secondary and senior
high school SMA and vocational high school. This is necessary for the school to concern more to the English subject as a foreign language. This
needs special treatments in the process of teaching and learning to get the goals of teaching and learning English. The goals of the education have been
drafted in the standard competency and basic competence. The students of senior high school should achieve the standard of
competence and basic competence which have been drafted in national law number 22: 2003 UU no. 22: 2003. It is stated that teaching and learning
process should be based on standard of competence and basic competence
SKKD. This below is the draft of standard competency for the speaking skill of Senior High School.
Table 2 : Standard Competence and Basic Competence Standard Competence
Basic Competence
9. To express transactional and
interpersonal communications in the context of daily life.
9.2. To express simple, transactional and interpersonal communication both
formally and informally in accurate, fluent, and acceptable way, in the
context of daily life involving the functions of embarrassment, anger,
and annoyance.
10. To express simple, short,
