d. By using more and more two-word verb expressions, one can
express their opinions in more various ways in accordance with their feelings or mood in a proper and right way that is going to
be naturally and beautifully understood and appreciated as normal or standard English communication.
2. Practically
a. Speaking is maybe the hardest skill students need to learn and
master. However, its mastery is a must, because it is one of the skills an English learner must master.
b. Two-word verb idiomatic expressions are part of English words
or vocabulary that one should learn and command so that they can understand English, especially spoken or informal one
better. Spoken English modes will make both interlocutors more familiar to each other faster. It is also a common practice to use
these kinds of words. c.
There are a huge number of idiomatic Expressions in English language. According to Jakendoff 1997, there are estimated to
be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language
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This means the learning and mastery of them would both be hard and benefit us a lot.
d. We cannot look down upon learning idiomatic expressions in
English language and consider them as trivial, since they are an inseparable part of the language corpus students should and have
to learn and put them into practice day in day out.
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Jackendoff, R. The architecture of the language faculty. 1997.Cambridge, UK: MA: MIT Press p. 55.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Speaking
There are many experts explaining definition of speaking. Speaking is a productive language skill.
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It means that speaking is a person’s skills to produce sounds that can be understood by other people, so that he or she is able to create
good communication. It is a mental concept processed by someone in such a way to form a meaning when uttered.
Wendy and Listbeth state that speaking is perhaps the demanding skill for the teacher to teach. In their own language children are able to express emotions,
communicate intonations and reactions, explore the language and make fun of it, so they expect to be able to do the same in English.
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According to Ladouse in Nunan speaking is described as the activity as the ability to express oneself in the situation, or the activity to report acts, or situation
in precise words or the ability to converse or to express a sequence of ideas fluently.‖
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Brown cites that when someone can speak a language it means that he can carry on a conversation reasonably competently. In addition, he states that the
benchmark of successful acquisition of language is almost always the demonstration of an ability to accomplish pragmatic goals through an interactive
discourse with other language speakers.
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According to Chaney, speaking is ―the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols, in a variety of
contexts‖.
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Sanggam Siahaan, Issues in Linguistics. Yogyakarta: Graha Ilmu, 2008, p. 95.
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Wendy A. Scott and Listbeth H. Ytreberg, Teaching English to Children. New York: Longman, p. 33.
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David Nunan,. Research Methods in Language Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 23.
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J.D Brown,. Pragmatics Tests: Different Purposes,Different Tests. in K. R. Rose G. Kasper Eds, Pragmatics in language Teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001,
p. 267.
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A. L. Chaney and T. L. Burke, Teaching Oral Communication in Grades K-8, Boston: Allyn Bacon, 1998, p. 13.
