THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF SPEAKING AT PRIVATE ENGLISH COURSE

Abstract

English is one of languages used widely all over the world. Nowadays, the ability of speaking English has become a need. English is spoken by a great number of people as means of communication such as in getting knowledge, interacting with global societies or seeking jobs. Students who can speak English well may have a greater chance for further education, of finding employment and gaining promotion. Although English is the main foreign language taught at schools, the fact shows that students still cannot speak English properly. They start thinking of learning English through joining an English course. The design of this study is principally observational case study, which is aimed to investigate and describe the existing phenomena, that is the real situation of the time of conducting the research.The result of the study shows that teaching techniques found in speaking class at Private English course are story retelling, memorizing vocabulary, reading aloud, listening to the cassettes, small group discussion, and games. The approaches used are Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, and Communicative Approach. Both the teacher and students actively participated in the class interaction, either between teacher-students or student-student interaction.