techniques that are agreed by students and suitable with their level, whether beginner, intermediate or advanced students.
Beside those kinds of speaking activities in the classroom, we have to consider the aim of activity when we talk about it whether the activity is given
to improve student‟s accuracy, or to improve student‟s fluency. In accuracy activity, teacher perhaps want to make sure the students
get enough practice in a particular point of grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation, because their purpose is to make sure the students get
something right. The teacher will often work with the whole class. In fluency activity, teachers want to give the students opportunities to
use the language they have learnt, to use it freely, even if they make mistakes. In this activity, the teachers want the students to work in groups or sometimes
in pair more often with a whole clas s, such as “group discussion, or role play”.
B. Interest
When someone did some activities such as studying or other activities, heshe has to have a good reason to make himher sure that the activities could be
successful. It concludes that he is interested in that activity.
1. The Understanding of Interest
Many people fail to understand the true meaning of the term „interest‟. The meaning of interest is of many kinds, which is scientists give different
definition about it. In general, interest is related to intrinsic motivation and is centered on
the individual‟s inherent curiosity and desire to know more about himself or
herself and his or her environment.
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Elizabeth B. Hurlock said that “interests
17
Zoltan Dornyei, Teaching and Researching Motivation, London: Pearson Education Limited, 2001, p. 110.
are sources of motivation which drive people to do what they want to do when they are free to choose”.
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Interest is the factor which determines one‟s attitude in working or studying actively. The stronger he or she has, the harder he or she wants to
learn. N.L. and David C. Barliner said: “Students with an interest in a subject tend to pay attention to it. They
feel it makes a difference to them. They want to become fully aware of its character. They enjoy dealing with it, either for what it can lead to or for its
own sake. Their attention level is high; their wor k output is sustained….”
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According to Hilgard which is quoted by Slameto, interest is persisting tendency to pay attention to and enjoy some activities or content. This
definition tells us that an interest is shown by a pay attention and enjoyment in any activity. So, by having interest we are going to be able to get attention in
learning fully. It means that when a person is interested in something heshe will pay it full attention and also feels enjoyable it. In other words, in
teaching-learning process, a teacher needs paying attention on students‟
interest and need, because both of them caused an attention. Something interest and needed by students make them to learn seriously.
From the definitions explained above, we can get a point that interest is the internal power as sources of motivation in teaching-learning process. It
makes students easier to involve in the subject because they will pay attention fully on that subject in this case is speaking. In term of mental condition,
interest does not only form one‟s behavior but also support him or herself to
the activity in speaking and as a result, one pays attention and makes him or herself to be a part in the activities.
18
Elizabeth B. Hurlock, Child Development, Singapore: Mc. Graw-Hill Book Company. 1987 p. 420.
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N.L. Gage and David C. Berliner, Educational Ps ychology, Chicago: Rand McNally Pub, 1997 p. 374.
