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,
functional texts and simple monologue texts in the genres
of spoof, narrative, and hortatory in the context of daily
life
10.2.To express simple, monologue texts accurately, fluently, and
acceptably in the genres of recount, narrative, and procedure in the context
of daily life
To reach the competences above, it needs to know the principles of teaching and learning of English language. Besides, it is also necessary to
have the knowledge of English as language used in Indonesia. English is learnt into two broad contexts: foreign language and second
language. In Indonesia English is as foreign language. This must become a concern in teaching and learning process of speaking as foreign language.
English is as a foreign language means that English is not the language of communication in society generally. Learning English becomes challenging
since the students have limited opportunities to use the target language out of the class.
Learning to speak a foreign language in this case is English, requires more than grammatical and semantic rules Nunan, 2004. Learners must also
acquire the knowledge of the native speakers use the language in the context. Language is not only concern to the rules as grammar and structure, but it is
more than simply a system of rule Nunan, 2004. Effective communication requires the ability to use language appropriately in social interaction.
Litlewood 2006 suggests four skills which make up a person‘s communicative competence, and which must be recognized in foreign
language teaching. They are: a
Functional Skill It means that students should develop their skills in manipulating the
linguistic system to the point where the students can use it spontaneously and flexibly in order to express their intended messages.
b Grammatical Skill
The students must distinguish between the forms and the linguistic function.
c Strategic Skill
The learners should develop their ability in understanding the circumstances in a social interaction as using language for communicating.
d Sociolinguistic Skill
The learners must develop their knowledge not only the forms and rules of the target language but also about the culture of the target language.
Beside all above, it can be inferred that learning EFL for students must be taken care especially. To get communicative competence for the students,
teachers must provide the opportunities for the students to practice speaking
based on their interesting theme, and activities. These below are the principles of teaching speaking by Nunan, 2003:
a Be aware of the differences between second language and
foreign language context. Second language context gives more opportunities for the
students to practice more, since the target language becomes communication in society. Whereas foreign language context
give few opportunity for the students to learn more since the target language is not used in social.
b Give students practice with both fluency and accuracy
Accu racy is the extent to which students‘ speech matches
what people actually say when they used the target language. Fluency is the extent to the speakers use the language quickly
and confidently with few hesitations or unnatural pauses, false starts, word searches.
c Provide opportunities for students to talk by using group
work or pair work, and limiting teacher talk. d
Design task that involve negotiation meaning. e
Design classroom activities that involve guidance and practice in both transactional and interactional speaking.
4. Teaching English Using Music Activities
