Teaching Speaking in Junior High School

shehe is not monitoring to interrupt with error correction. Then, after the speaking lesson, the teacher should give feedback. Shehe can select certain students to give some feedback to share some of what shehe has talked about. It is clear that teacher‘s role in a speaking class is mainly to facilitate the activities, to participate in the activity without dominating it as well as to monitor in the classroom, and to give feedback or correction for mistakes in the end of the activity.

i. Teaching Speaking in Junior High School

Based on Model KTSP SMP and MTs, or school based curriculum, English as subject matter for Junior High School is aimed at building language ability and communication skill in spoken and written form to face the development of science and technology in globalization era Suparman, 2007:13. He adds that there are three fields of English as compulsory subject in Junior High School. They are the discourse ability to integrate four skills listening, speaking, reading and writing, the ability to comprehend form of procedure, descriptive, recount, narrative, and report and supporting competences such as linguistic competences grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, sociocultural competence, strategic competence, and discourse competence. The school based curriculum is developed by the school based on BSNP which contains eight educational standards. Two of them are the standard content and the standard of graduate competence that become the main reference for each school in developing the curriculum. The standard of content covers teaching materials which consist of the standard of competence and the basic competence. Those are developed based on the guidance of the board of national education standard BSNP 2006. The standard of content includes the materials and the competence in a certain type and level of education the government regulation no. 192005 article 5. It also contains of the basic principle and the structure of the curriculum, the standard of competence and the basic competence of every subject in each semester in every type and level of basic and secondary education. Related to the standard of content, in this case, the standard of competence and basic competence which the research focus on are the standard of content in the English lesson, particularly the English speaking lesson at the second grade of the first semester. It is also limited to the scope of expressing meaning of short and simple transactional and interpersonal conversations to interact in daily life contexts.

j. Characteristics of Junior High School Students