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3. Teaching Speaking
Rivers 1968 states that teaching speaking skill is more demanding on the teacher than teaching other language skills. The teacher needs to give many
opportunities for the students to practice their speaking skill. When the teacher provides more complicated matter of foreign speech to be answered, the learners’
speaking ability will be more developed too. The teacher will need to use the imagination in devising situations which lead the students to the use of the
language in the expression of their own meaning. Sometimes people feel afraid or nervous to speak in front of many people
or a large group, for example, in front of a class. Davies 2000 states that some strategies for teaching speaking: the first is creating relaxed atmosphere in the
class, so the students will not be frightened to speak in front of the class. At the beginning, do speaking activities as many as possible in pairs or in groups so they
will speak with smaller groups of people; this is used to build up their confident before speaking in front of the whole class. The second is speaking in natural
pronunciation and add some pronunciation work into the lesson. The third is gettinglearners to combine listening and speaking in natural interaction.
B. Theoretical Framework
This study focuses on students’ perception on the use of role play
technique in Speaking II class. In order to identify the result of this study, the researcher needs to search theories related to the topics of the study that are stated
14 in the theoretical description. In this section, the researcher will relate the theory
in theoretical description tothis research. According to Altmanat al.
1985, students’ perception towards something can influence their behavior response. In this research, the researcher wants to
identify the perception of the students of Speaking II class F about the use of role play technique. Their perception might be positive or negative, yet their
perception will influence their motivation to learn. The more positive their perception the higher their motivation is.On the other hand, the more negative
their perception the lower their motivation will be. Thus, their perception will determine the effectiveness of the role play technique in Speaking II class F.
Speaking II is a compulsory course in the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. This subject is offered in semester
II. According to the Academic Guideline’s Book 2011, “On completing this
course, the students are able to express their own personal feelings and options using appropriate vocabulary words, opinions of others, and use appropriate
technical terms and expressions in various contextual English discourse. ” Role
play technique can be used as one of the activities in this course because it needs the real practice in order to develop the speaking skill especially in the
pronunciation.
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