The Media The Teaching and Learning Process
vocabulary and pronunciation took the important role equally in the students’ speaking improvement. The students were still reluctant to open
the dictionary. They prefer asked the teacher directly instead of searching for the difficult words in the dictionary. It would not help them memorize
the words well. That was why when they spoke English, they did not know some English words they wanted to say. They paused and
continued in Javanese or Indonesian. The second problem was the students’ confidence. They were still
shy and not confident to speak English. The students only spoke when the teacher asked them. They were afraid of making mistakes especially
on grammatical mistakes. Therefore, the students became silent, passive, and they did not get high motivation involved actively in the learning
process. The limited sources of learning materials became the next problem
of students’ speaking skill improvement. The material and the students’ worksheet given only relied on the textbook. Whereas, the textbook did
not really provide enough activities and it was less contextualized. The activities provided were not really encouraging the students to get
involved actively in the classroom. After doing critical thinking to analyze the causes of the problems,
the researcher and the collaborator decided to solve the problems related to the teaching-learning process as soon as possible. The starting effort to
do was to change the ways of teaching. Both the researcher and the collaborator agreed to employ the video recording project to stimulate the
students’ confidence, interest, and active participation in learning English speaking. They also decided to use some media and materials from many
sources which were appropriate with the curriculum and the students’ needs. Besides, the teacher needed to make a comfortable atmosphere so
that the students would learn effectively without feeling anxious and afraid of making mistakes. By doing these changes, the students were
expected to be better learners. They became active, attentive, responsive, and confident learners. The table below gives us explanation of the most
feasible problems arising in learning speaking.
Table 4: The Most Feasible Problems of Speaking in Class XI IIS 3 at SMA N 1 Wonosari
No. The Feasible Problems
1. The students produced incorrect pronunciation.
2. The students lacked vocabulary mastery.
3. The students were shy and not confident to speak English.
4. The students were afraid of making mistakes when they spoke.
5. The students made grammatical mistakes frequently.
6. The students had low motivation in learning English.
7. The students frequently used their mother language in the
classroom. 8.
The materials given only relied on textbooks. 9.
There were no interesting media to support the teaching and learning process
10. The activities were monotonous and not interesting.