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TECHNIQUES USED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN TEACHING
SPEAKING TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:
A STUDY AT SMA N 1 PATI
Efrita Christi

Abstract
Since elementary to senior high school level, Indonesian students have been
taught English subject. However, in the reality many graduated senior high school
students still cannot speak English. Therefore, to know why it could be in such, a
study on how teachers teach speaking is conducted, as another study showed that
the role of teachers in teaching speaking and the way they teach bring very crucial
influence on students’ learning. This study attempts to find out teaching
techniques used by English teacher in teaching speaking and its influence on
speaking development of senior high school students. The participant of this study
was three tenth grade English teachers who are teaching English subject in SMA 1
Pati. They were interviewed two times, using semi-structure interview, before and
after the implementation of their techniques was observed. The study found
several techniques used by English teachers to teach speaking, those are role play,
storytelling, discussion, presentation, games, brainstorming, using songs, using
pictures and watching video. The findings also showed that the kinds and the
implementation of techniques influenced whether or not students were motivated

to be involved in the activities. Moreover, the kinds and the implementation of
techniques determined how much opportunity provided for students to speak in
the target language.
Keywords: speaking, senior high school students, techniques, techniques of
teaching speaking.