A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF TEACHING SPEAKING AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF LANGUAGE PROGRAM OF PANGUDI LUHUR SAINT JOSEPH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SURAKARTA.
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF TEACHING SPEAKING AT THE THIRD
YEAR STUDENTS OF LANGUAGE PROGRAM OF PANGUDI LUHUR
SAINT JOSEPH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SURAKARTA
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requireme nts
for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
by
ANITA PRIHATIN WIJAYANTI
A 320 030 240
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
2008
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language has played an important role in many aspects of human live.
Using language people can express their ideas, transfer information or
message. Language is also used to realize every person’s hopes, aspiration and
thinking. As a means of communication it is very useful and flexible which
can serve the human needs in their communication in any situation. There are
international languages, namely English, French, Japan and German. Of the
international languages, English is most widely used in the world.
Since it is an international language, English is taught as a compulsory
subject in Indonesia. It is learned by students of play group, kindergarten,
elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and university.
Indonesia students are expected to comprehend English as well as Indonesian
language. The government hopes that the students in Indonesia can use
English in speaking with their friends or perhaps with foreigners fluently.
There are number of state schools and private schools that are built in
Surakarta. Because of that, there are competitions in quality and benefit
between one school and the others. And there are a lot of schools promoting
the good quality, facilities and promising good quantity program in teaching
learning process to the students.
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Few senior high schools in Surakarta open language program besides
social and MIPA program. One of them is Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior
High School. This is a private school under Pangudi Luhur institution.
Language program was opened on the third grade, but when the curriculum
was changed into Competence Based Curriculum language program began
from the second grade. Each grade consists of one class language program.
This language program gives many languages to study, namely: English,
German, Japan and Arabic. This program is supported with English laboratory
too.
Teacher is supposed to be creative in developing their teaching methods
to create good atmosphere, improve the students’ speaking skill and make the
English lesson more exciting. One of the big questions in any English
teachers’ head is “how do we develop our students’ speaking skill?”
Lado in Diller (1971) argued that language teaching should aim at
making students speak the language. So, teacher should be creative to choose
the way to increase students speaking skill. There are some micro skills of
speaking, namely telling story, presentation, delivering speech, discussion,
mastering ceremony, and conference. One of the ways to develop speaking
skill is by presentation. Josef Essberger (1996) defines that presentation is a
short talk by one person to group of people introducing and describing a
particular subject (for example: a new product, company figures or a proposed
advertising campaign). It means that presentation can build students speaking
development.
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B. Previous Study
In this research, the writer summarizes some previous study that
relevant with the writer’s topic. The first researcher was done by Sumiyati
(1997) entitled “A descriptive study on structural error in speaking skill Made
by The Third Semester Students of English Department of Muhammadiyah
University of Surakarta in 1995. She analyzed the English structural error in
speaking skill made by the third semester students of English Department of
UMS in 1995. Based the data analysis, the researcher figures out that the third
semester students of English Department of UMS in 1995 still make structural
errors in their speaking activity.
The second researcher was done by Mukinah (2005) who studies the
teaching speaking. She describes the teaching speaking at Istibank English
Course in Surakarta by using role-play. The results show that are (a) character,
it increase the students’ creativity in playing role character, it increases the
students’ vocabulary, create good pronunciation, (b) the use of role-play
method is suitable for the beginners, (c) almost of the students are active in
classroom activity.
The third researcher was done by Dwi Henry W. A. Her research titled
is “Improving students’ pronunciation in speaking class through reception
technique: an action research at the fifth students of SDN Premulung. The
results of her research are : (a) the implementation of repetition technique
could be done in different ways to avoid the monotonous to improve the
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students pronunciation, (b) repetition technique is effective to improve the
students’ pronunciation by indicating of the razing percentage of the average
accurateness from 43 % up to 80 %, (c) some problem are faced by students.
In this research, the writer tries to make different research. The writer
wants to describe the process of developing teaching speaking.
C. Problem Statement
Based on the background of the study, the writer form elates the
problems, as follows:
1. What is the technique teaching speaking used by the third year students of
language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School
Surakarta?
2. How is the implementation of teaching speaking at the third year students
of language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School
Surakarta?
D. Objective of the Study
The writer has some objectives dealing with the problem statement
above, they are:
1. To know the technique that is used by the third year students of language
program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta.
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2. To describe the process of speaking through presentation at the third year
students of the language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior
High School Surakarta.
E. Limitation of Study
In this research the writer only focuses on the process of teaching
speaking by the third year students of language program of Pangudi Luhur
Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta.
F. Benefit of the Study
1. Theoretical Benefit
It is expected that the result of this research can be an input to create
teaching English, particularly speaking through presentation as variation in
teaching English.
2. Practical Benefit
It will give additional input and reference about the realization of teaching
speaking.
G. Research Paper Outline
In writing this research, the writer divides it into five chapters. Chapter
I is Introduction, which discusses background of the study, previous study,
problem statement, objective of the study, limitation of study and benefit of
the study. Chapter II is theoretical review. It deals with communicative
language teaching, the nature of speaking, interaction in the speaking
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classroom, presentation, and short story. Chapter III is research method. It
consists of type of research, subject of study, object of the study, data and
data source, technique of analyzing data, and technique of collecting data.
Chapter IV is research findings and discussion. It discusses research finding
and discussion. Chapter V is conclusion and suggestion.
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YEAR STUDENTS OF LANGUAGE PROGRAM OF PANGUDI LUHUR
SAINT JOSEPH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SURAKARTA
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requireme nts
for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
by
ANITA PRIHATIN WIJAYANTI
A 320 030 240
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
2008
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language has played an important role in many aspects of human live.
Using language people can express their ideas, transfer information or
message. Language is also used to realize every person’s hopes, aspiration and
thinking. As a means of communication it is very useful and flexible which
can serve the human needs in their communication in any situation. There are
international languages, namely English, French, Japan and German. Of the
international languages, English is most widely used in the world.
Since it is an international language, English is taught as a compulsory
subject in Indonesia. It is learned by students of play group, kindergarten,
elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and university.
Indonesia students are expected to comprehend English as well as Indonesian
language. The government hopes that the students in Indonesia can use
English in speaking with their friends or perhaps with foreigners fluently.
There are number of state schools and private schools that are built in
Surakarta. Because of that, there are competitions in quality and benefit
between one school and the others. And there are a lot of schools promoting
the good quality, facilities and promising good quantity program in teaching
learning process to the students.
1
Few senior high schools in Surakarta open language program besides
social and MIPA program. One of them is Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior
High School. This is a private school under Pangudi Luhur institution.
Language program was opened on the third grade, but when the curriculum
was changed into Competence Based Curriculum language program began
from the second grade. Each grade consists of one class language program.
This language program gives many languages to study, namely: English,
German, Japan and Arabic. This program is supported with English laboratory
too.
Teacher is supposed to be creative in developing their teaching methods
to create good atmosphere, improve the students’ speaking skill and make the
English lesson more exciting. One of the big questions in any English
teachers’ head is “how do we develop our students’ speaking skill?”
Lado in Diller (1971) argued that language teaching should aim at
making students speak the language. So, teacher should be creative to choose
the way to increase students speaking skill. There are some micro skills of
speaking, namely telling story, presentation, delivering speech, discussion,
mastering ceremony, and conference. One of the ways to develop speaking
skill is by presentation. Josef Essberger (1996) defines that presentation is a
short talk by one person to group of people introducing and describing a
particular subject (for example: a new product, company figures or a proposed
advertising campaign). It means that presentation can build students speaking
development.
2
B. Previous Study
In this research, the writer summarizes some previous study that
relevant with the writer’s topic. The first researcher was done by Sumiyati
(1997) entitled “A descriptive study on structural error in speaking skill Made
by The Third Semester Students of English Department of Muhammadiyah
University of Surakarta in 1995. She analyzed the English structural error in
speaking skill made by the third semester students of English Department of
UMS in 1995. Based the data analysis, the researcher figures out that the third
semester students of English Department of UMS in 1995 still make structural
errors in their speaking activity.
The second researcher was done by Mukinah (2005) who studies the
teaching speaking. She describes the teaching speaking at Istibank English
Course in Surakarta by using role-play. The results show that are (a) character,
it increase the students’ creativity in playing role character, it increases the
students’ vocabulary, create good pronunciation, (b) the use of role-play
method is suitable for the beginners, (c) almost of the students are active in
classroom activity.
The third researcher was done by Dwi Henry W. A. Her research titled
is “Improving students’ pronunciation in speaking class through reception
technique: an action research at the fifth students of SDN Premulung. The
results of her research are : (a) the implementation of repetition technique
could be done in different ways to avoid the monotonous to improve the
3
students pronunciation, (b) repetition technique is effective to improve the
students’ pronunciation by indicating of the razing percentage of the average
accurateness from 43 % up to 80 %, (c) some problem are faced by students.
In this research, the writer tries to make different research. The writer
wants to describe the process of developing teaching speaking.
C. Problem Statement
Based on the background of the study, the writer form elates the
problems, as follows:
1. What is the technique teaching speaking used by the third year students of
language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School
Surakarta?
2. How is the implementation of teaching speaking at the third year students
of language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School
Surakarta?
D. Objective of the Study
The writer has some objectives dealing with the problem statement
above, they are:
1. To know the technique that is used by the third year students of language
program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta.
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2. To describe the process of speaking through presentation at the third year
students of the language program of Pangudi Luhur Saint Joseph Senior
High School Surakarta.
E. Limitation of Study
In this research the writer only focuses on the process of teaching
speaking by the third year students of language program of Pangudi Luhur
Saint Joseph Senior High School Surakarta.
F. Benefit of the Study
1. Theoretical Benefit
It is expected that the result of this research can be an input to create
teaching English, particularly speaking through presentation as variation in
teaching English.
2. Practical Benefit
It will give additional input and reference about the realization of teaching
speaking.
G. Research Paper Outline
In writing this research, the writer divides it into five chapters. Chapter
I is Introduction, which discusses background of the study, previous study,
problem statement, objective of the study, limitation of study and benefit of
the study. Chapter II is theoretical review. It deals with communicative
language teaching, the nature of speaking, interaction in the speaking
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classroom, presentation, and short story. Chapter III is research method. It
consists of type of research, subject of study, object of the study, data and
data source, technique of analyzing data, and technique of collecting data.
Chapter IV is research findings and discussion. It discusses research finding
and discussion. Chapter V is conclusion and suggestion.
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