Teaching speaking, in my
opinion, is the way for students to express their emotions, communicative
needs, interact to other person in any situation, and influence the others. For
this reason, in teaching speaking skill it is necessary to have clear
understanding involved in speech. Before go to the next post, here are some
article which I wrote about speaking.
To make students fluency in
speaking English, they must regard English as matter of habit. Therefore, they
must have appropriate activities. Here are some activities which can help
student to be great in speaking English.
Kayi (2006: 2) states that there
are some activities to promote speaking. They are explained as follows:
1) Discussion
The students may aim to arrive
at a conclusion, share ideas about an event, or find solutions in their
discussion groups. Here the teacher can form groups of students and each group
works on their topic for a given time period, and present their opinions to the
class. Fauziati (2002: 134) states that the main aim of group discussion is to
improve fluency, grammar in probably best allowed functioning as a naturally
communicative context.
2) Role Play and Simulation
Role play has appeal for
students because it allows the students to be creative and to put themselves in
another person’s place for a while (Richard, 2003: 222). While simulation is
very similar to role-play but here students can bring items to the class to
create a realistic environment. For instance, if a student is acting as a
singer, he or she can bring a microphone to sing and so on.
3) Interviews
Conducting interviews with
people gives students a chance to practice their speaking ability not only in
class but also outside and helps them becoming socialized. After interviews,
each student can present the result to the class.
4) Reporting
In class, the students are asked
to report what they find as the most interest news. Students can also talk
about whether they have experienced anything worth telling their friends in
their daily lives before class.
5) Prepared Talks
A popular kind of activity is
the prepared talk where a student makes a presentation on a topic. Such talks
are not designed for informal spontaneous conversation; because they are
prepared, they are more ‘writing-like’ than spoken orally. However, if
possible, students should speak from notes rather than from a script (Harmer,
2001: 274)
6) Dialogue
Dialogue is one of the media in
teaching speaking. It helps the students practice in speech, pronunciation,
intonation, stress. Dialogue also increases students’ vocabulary. The primary
objective of using dialogue is developing student’s competence (pronunciation,
intonation, stress) in teaching speaking like native speaker. Therefore, in
teaching-learning uses dialogue (short and long), the students are motivated by
the teachers question to reason rather than to recollect. Dialogues is two
sides communication, it means we just not have to express something but we
should have to understand what another peoples said (Podo and Sulaiman, 1995:
25). When we teach young learners we constantly have to keep in mind the fact
what he have in front of us is a mixed class with varied abilities,
expectations, motivation level, knowledge and last but not least, different
learning styles. Thus, we need to vary our approaches and offer as much
opportunity as possible to make the whole class find a little something to hold
on to, expand and grow (Klancar, 2006).