B. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
There are two main concerns of this research. The first concern is related to the communicative competence of the elementary students. The second is the
test design to measure the students’ communicative competence. Since English has been taught in the elementary school, it is expected
that students have ability to communicate in English. So far there is not clear description of what kinds of communicative competence should be possessed by
the students. This study tries to identify the communicative competence in children. The children’s competence will be derived from the theories of
communicative competence and then they will be adjusted to the children’s characteristics. In short, the identification of children’s communicative
competence is the first concern of this study. The second concern of this study is the test design which is used to assess
the children communicative competence. Communicative competence becomes the main goal of the language program so the test design should represent the
students’ ability to communicate in speaking or listening. This test design hopefully will make the teaching practice to be more effective and the children
will be more competent.
C. RESEARCH FOCUS
This research focuses on the two main concerns, they are the communicative competence of the elementary school students and the design of a
test to measure spoken competence of the elementary school students in Indonesia.
Communicative competence in this study focuses on the spoken skills, they are listening and speaking. Since language is not used separately therefore
this research to focus on the integration of the two skills above. To be more specific, this study will describe the spoken competence of elementary school
students. The description of the elementary school students’ spoken competence will become the theoretical model of this study. The theoretical model then will be
developed to be a set of spoken English tests. The next focus is the product of this study. This study is oriented to the
product. In this study the product is a set of test to measure the spoken competence of the elementary school students. The test is developed from the
theoretical model and the product will become the spoken test of the elementary school students.
D. STATEMENT OF RESEARCH QUESTION
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