How to teach speaking?

Teaching Speaking

Teaching is one of many components to the success the leaning process of the students. According to Jarolimek and Foster (1976: 51)

“Teaching one aspect of education is interaction between a teacher, a person who can induce intelligent behaving and a learner, a person acquiring intelligent behavior. Teaching will be treated as a subcategory of instruction which is one subcategory of education.

From the statement above, it means that teaching is the interaction of two people or more people, generally which result in a greater degree of self development in the learners. To make the speaking class run well, there are several steps that should be taken by the teacher:

a.      Decide the Material

         The teacher should know the students need and characteristic of each student. It will be easier for the teacher to present the materials. The material here must be meaningful and interesting, because it will make the students more motivated to joint the speaking class. According Jarolimek and D. Foster (1976: 59) “Good management will reflect itself in a room which is comfortable intellectually, emotionally, and socially”. Based on the statement, the writer can say that an interesting class will make the student feel comfortable during teaching learning process.

b.      Choosing the Suitable Technique of Teaching

         Choosing the suitable technique is very important. Because it will determine the success of teaching learning process. The teacher’s technique must be suitable with the student’s ability and the student’s age. It is a job of the teacher to use technique during teaching learning activity.

            In other words, teaching speaking can be rephrased as training students to be able to express their thought (feeling, opinion) or fact. However, the effort of making the students to be able to communicate naturally is very important. The understanding of this concept needs to be emphasized since the classroom practice of teaching speaking so far do not seem to reflect to what conventionally happen outside the language class. But the reality many students cannot to express what they think and it is needs interactive teacher in the class. That most of students’ in the class cannot express their idea. In many such classes, the teacher accompanies the students’ interactive practice and students withdraw, hesitant, and cautious.

            Classroom activities that develop students’ ability to express themselves through speech seem an important component of a language course. It is difficult to design and administer such activities; more so, in many ways and to make successful in teaching speaking, the teacher must know the characteristics successful speaking activities.

Sources :                    

Jarolimek, John and Clifford. 1969. Teaching and Learning in the Elementary School. America: Macmillan Publishing. Co. Inc.