xxxiii mispronounced words. Fourth, most students used mother tongue in speaking
class. Instead of using various expressions in English, students expressed their ideas in the mother tongue. Fifth, students could not pronounce the English words
well.
d. Factors Influencing the Students’ Speaking Skill
There are some influential factors in developing the speaking skill. The factors that influence the speaking skills of the students are interest, motivation
and environment. The students‘ interest to study and practice the speaking skill is
an important factor. By having strong interest, the learners will try to give a great attention to improve their speaking. They will manage some activities that enable
to increase skill. Dealing with the above opinion, it is necessary to know that one of the
causes of the failure in teaching English at school is that the teacher still teaches with the routine activities without considering that it will make the students bored,
and lost their attention to the teaching and learning process. As the result, the students will not be able to catch the lesson easily because of their lost interest
and participation. In other words, the technique used by the teacher in teaching English to
the students, especially speaking skill, should be able to create an interesting atmosphere, so that the students will be comfortable, enthusiastic, excited, and
interested in joining the lesson in the teaching learning activity. It also can be said that: support, sacrifice, and diligence are the result of interest. If someone has
interest in something he will join and follow the activity, even in a long time.
xxxiv Motivation is very strongly related to achievement in language learning.
Motivation is a way of how individuals get interested, react to events that get their attention and engage in certain specified behaviors particularly in the learning
process. Motivated individuals will involve whole heartedly in the teaching- learning process and they will have an intention to learn more and more. Students
can be motivated to perform well because of factors such as interest curiosity, the need to obtain information or solve a problem, or the desire to understand.
Learner motivation makes teaching and learning immeasurably easier and more pleasant, as well as more productive. Motivation has relationship with the power
to move. It can raise, effort, power, and energy to do something. Environment is an important factor in gaining the speaking skill. One of
the reasons for the students‘ failure to learn or maintain their second language is
there is no contact between learners and the community in which the language is spoken. The components of this factor can be home environment, school
environment, community environment, etc. The environment that encourages the greatest amount of use of the language is beneficial.
Based on the statements above, the writer can conclude that the successful students depend on their interest, motivation, and environment surrounding them.
It means that the students motivate themselves to achieve English, although there are extrinsic factors influencing their study. However, the intrinsic interest and
motivation has a stronger influence than the extrinsic one.
e. Basic Consideration in Teaching Speaking
