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b. Participation is even; Classroom discussion is not dominated by a minority of talkative participants, all get a chance to speak, or as
participator. c. Motivation is high; learner are eager to speak, because they are
interested in the topic and have something new to say about it, or because they want to contribute to achieving a task objective.
d. Language is of an acceptable level; learners express themselves in utterances that are relevant, easily comprehensible to each other,
and of an acceptable level of language accuracy.
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In the inhibition, learners are often inhibited about trying to say things in foreign language in the classroom; worried about making
mistakes, fearful of criticism or losing face, or simply shy of the attention that their speech attracts. According to Penny Ur, the
problems are including inhibition, nothing to say, low or uneven participation, mother-tongue use.
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b. Teaching Stages for a Speaking Activity
Teaching speaking can be various activities. Thornbury suggests that teaching of speaking depends on there being a classroom culture of speaking,
and that classrooms need to become talking classrooms.
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In other words, students speaking abilities will be improved if the teacher creates different
9
Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 120
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Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching. Cambridge : University Press, 1996, p.120
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Ibid.. 87
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challenging activity that is required students to speak. For an effective speaking lesson, teachers need to be aware of, knowledgeable about, and
familiarized with the teaching stages of a speaking activity. Carolina Terry says that teaching stages for a speaking activity are pre-communicative stage,
practice stage, and communicative interaction or production stage.
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During the pre-communicative stage teacher introduce the communicative function, highlight the fixed expressions, point out the target
structure, provide students with the necessary vocabulary and provide students with the language of interaction.
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Next, during the practice stage includes correcting, prompting students if necessary, monolingual dictionaries, and aim
for intelligibility. Therefore, during the communicative interaction or production stage is encourage language negotiation, take note of any aspects
that may hinder communication pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and respect students wait a time.
Another definition of teaching speaking is explained by Hughes as the following :
“Teaching speaking is to teach English language learners to produce the English speech sounds and sound patterns. 1 use words and sentence
stress, intonation patterns and rhythm of the second language: 2 Select
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Carolina Terry, How to Teach Speaking in an EFL Class.Academic Supervisor.Ministiry of Education: ICPNA San Miguel, 2008, page 5.
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Jeremy harmer, How to teach English, Longman: England, 1998, page. 94.
