Thursday, March 26, 2015

Developing Speaking Material for English Course Students of Smile Course Indonesia

By Mahrus Ali Hasan


Language is a form of thinking that can be understood, in touch with reality, and have the shape and structure of the logical. We cannot deny that English is the language that must be mastered as an international language, but unfortunately the formal school education and campus less than optimal in providing proficiency in the English language to the students and also students, so many people who need education outside the formal education to improve English language skills.
Now days, along with the strengthening position of English as a language as international communication, the teaching of speaking skill has become increasingly important in the English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) context. The teaching of speaking is also important due to the large number of students who want to study English in order to be able to use English for communicative purposes. This is apparent in Richards and Renandya’s (2002, p. 201) publication where they stated, “A large percentage of the world’s language learners study English in order to develop proficiency in speaking”. Moreover, students of second/ foreign language education programs are considered successful if they can communicate effectively in the language (Riggenback and Lazaraton, 1991). The new parameter used to determine success in second language/foreign language education programs appears to revise the previously held conviction that student’s success or lack in ESL/EFL was judged by the accuracy of the language that produced. 
Based on the discussion above, this research intends to develop speaking materials for the student in English course. The students are not enough if they just study English at school. Hopefully, the result of this research can be used as means to develop their English

Method
According to Harmer (1991, pp. 46-47), there are three reasons why people communicate. First, people communicate because “they want to say something.” As Harmer explained, the word ‘want’ refers to intentional desire the speaker has in order to convey messages to other people. Simply stated, people speak because they just do not want to keep silent. Second, people communicate because “they have some communicated purposes.” By having some communicative purpose it means that the speakers want something to happen as a result of what they say. For example, they may express a request if they need a help from other people or they command if they want other people to do something. Thus, two things are important in communicating: “the message they wish to convey and the effect they want it to have” (Hamer, 2001, p. 46). Finally, when people communicate, “they select from their language store.” The third reason is the consequence of the desire to say something (first reason) and the purpose in conducting communicative activities ( second reason ). As they have language storage, they will select language expression appropriate to get messages across to other people. Harmer used the three reasons to explain the nature of the communication which can be presented graphically in.

Result
This chapter is talking about the result of distributing the instrument. The instrument related with students need assessment, expert validation and try out. the research will give more detail about the explanation of the study and the research also gives an explanation about the  respondents’ comment by short explanation.
            The data are taken from the students which their need to improve their speaking skill to develop the materials. The researcher gives some questionnaire to 35 English course students in Smile course Indonesia. The data are taken from the students who have a good experience in using speaking book and also their need in English material.
            The explanation of the material in speaking book is needed some additional material to improve the students skill, especially in their speaking skill, it is found almost most of students said that the material was not really interesting, about the topic and the style of language. The students need an interesting topic and also need more practice.

Discussion
The information about the students’ interest in learning speaking. The student’s information was taken from the English teacher. The material is interesting or not. The researcher can take some point or opinion from the teacher who teaches the students.
Problem in teaching speaking is complex. It is not only related with the students’ factor but also about context outside. In the internal aspects, the problems occurred are related with native language, age, material, and environment and motivation and concern for good speaking. The points of those problems are related with condition of the student.
Base on the analysis done, the researcher try to develop the material. The material mast suitable with the teacher and students need to improve their speaking skill. Though there are some elements in language instruction, and learners should be the center of instruction. However, materials often control the instruction, since teachers and learners tend to rely heavily on them. Materials that is appropriate for a particular class need to have an underlying instructional philosophy, approach, method and technique which suit the students and their needs. They should have correct, natural, current and Standard English. Teachers need to look for good materials, both commercial and non-commercial, all the time. They also need to be aware of commercialism and copyright issues concerning materials.
To know the effectiveness of material develop, it is needed to apply to the students, the researcher will know the result of the product in the real field. The result of making material has been carried out in the institution smile Indonesian course that aims to improve the quality of students in facilitating learning English, especially in speaking lessons. What has been developed in the previous material, a lot of things that need to be improved? Development is expected to add to the development of the previous material in the application in the classroom for all students.

Conclusion and Suggestion
Conclusion
This study aims to improve the quality of learning that is in institutions Smile Course Indonesian. To find a good solution to improve the quality of learning materials that are in the institution. Ranging from the style of language, topic, and writing of the language models
There are many quick ways to learn English and how to speak, practice conversation, and memorize all the rules of grammar in English. Learn English much make students frustrated, because they do not know how appropriate methods and materials that support according to the needs of students. As a result, the learning they do of course in vain and do not produce results significantly.  In a quick way to learn English, there are actually only three easy steps that you can apply and produce good results. The steps we will describe briefly below.

Suggestion
Based on the findings of the study, several constructive suggestions are given to the English teacher and future researcher as follows:
A suggestion for the teacher to development of speaking skills is influenced by several aspects. Each aspect may present a separate prospective from which the development of speaking skills can be viewed. For the purpose of the thesis, teacher’s perspective and her share in that process has been chosen.
A suggestion for future researcher is that this book more alteration. It will give more interesting material if the next researcher gives more material about speaking. . This particular product contains around 15 chapters with a good material for the students are going to read extensively every day. Increasing the number of texts is highly recommended so that the students can be more skillful particularly in speaking. Speaking needs practice and the material orders the students to make conversation with all their friends in the class.


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