well. Thus, it is very important for teachers to select relevant and suitable material for their students.
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Harmer adds that suitable topic and task will make the students participate freely and enthusiastically.
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c. Give some instruction or training in discussion skill
In speaking class, teachers should give clear instruction to students, so that they know well what they have to do during the process of learning. For example,
in group discussion, the students have to make sure that everyone in the group contribute to the discussion and ask the chairperson in each group to regulate
participation. d.
Keep students speaking in the target language One of some ways to control students to speak in the target language is
appoint a leader in each group as monitor, whose job it is to remind participants to use the target language and report later to the teacher how well the group managed
to keep to it.
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D. The Relevant Previous Study
To make sure the originality of the idea in this study, the writer will present three previous studies that have relevance with this kind of study the
writer conducted.
a. Textbook Analysis on Speaking Material Written on “English in Focus”
An Analytical Study on English Textbook for First year of Junior High School
This research is conducted by Mailani in 2012. She was a student of English Education Department, Facul
ty of Tarbiyah and Teacher’s Training. The aim of the study is to find out whether or not the speaking materials of English
Textbook entitled “English in Focus” compatible with KTSP and to describe the feasibility of content, language, and presentation of the textbook. This research
used descriptive qualitative approach by using document analysis. The writer took all speaking materials on the textbook as the unit of analysis. The findings of the
study stated that 1 the presentation of the speaking materials in this textbook is
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Ur, op. cit., pp. 121 —122.
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Harmer, op. cit., p. 345.
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Ur, op. cit., pp. 121 —122.
not exactly compatible with the curriculum. That is proven by the fact that there are some of speaking materials suggested in curriculum not include in this
textbook. 2 The order of presentation of the speaking materials in this textbook is not presented systematically and not compatible with the latest curriculum. In
terms of the feasibility of language, the language that used in this textbook is simple and understandable.
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b. The Analysis of English Textbook “Path way to English” Used in the First
Grade of Senior High School Based on Curriculum 2013.
This research is conducted by Arif Prasojo in 2014. He was a student of English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher’s Training. The
aim of the study is to find out whether or not materials of English Textbook entitled “Pathway to English” compatible with Curriculum 2013 and to describe
the feasibility of content, language, and presentation of the textbook. This research used descriptive qualitative approach by using document analysis. The
writer took all exercise of listening, speaking, reading, and writing as the unit of analysis. The findings of the study stated that 1 the English Textbook of
“Pathway to English” compatible with the curriculum 2013. 2 The materials provided in the textbook completely developed, as all the suggested English
language skills exercises of writing, speaking, reading and listening materials in the curriculum 2013 are implemented. 3 The feasibility of content and
presentation has mostly met the standard of an English textbook in delivering curriculum 2013.
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c. An Analysis of the Speaking Materials in “English Alive 2” Textbook for
the Eleventh Grade of Senior High School
This research has been conducted by Febriyan Dwi Cahyono dan Rahayu Kuswardany, students of English Education, Language and Art Faculty, Surabaya
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Mailani. “An Analysis on Speaking Materials Written on English in Focus: An English Textbook for First Year of Junior High School”, Skripsi of Undergraduate of Syarif Hidayatullah
State Islamic University Jakarta, Jakarta, 2011, unpublished.
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Arif Prasojo. “
The Analysis of English Textbook “Path way to English” Used in the First Grade of Senior High School Based on Curriculum 2013. Skripsi of Undergraduate of Syarif
Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, Jakarta, 2014, unpublished.
