Essay About Teaching Speaking

CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF LITERATE LITERATURE

A. The Concept of Teaching Speaking

1. Definition of Speaking

Human life cannot be separated from the activities of speaking. Language is a means of communication between people. Language as a communication tool in order to fulfill human nature as social beings that need to interact with others. In line with the development of science and technology, people are required to have good language skills. Someone who has the adequate language skills would be easier to absorb and convey information both orally and in writing.

Language skills consist of four aspects, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students must master the four aspects to having a good acquisition of the language. Thus, the learning of language skills at school does not only emphasize the theory, but students

Pragmatic competence: This skill includes expressing a range of functions effectively and appropriately according to the context and register.

3. Fluency: the capacity to speak fluidly, confidently, and at a rate consistent with the norms of the relevant native speech community. This means speaking fluently demonstrating a reasonable rate of speech

4. Accuracy: The ability to speak properly. It means that selecting the correct words and expression to convey the intended meaning, as well as using the grammatical patterns of English (Bailey, 2005)

It can be concluded that speaking is defined operationally and completely as the secondary stage students' ability to express the language orally, coherently, fluently and appropriately in a given meaningful context to serve both transactional and interactional purposed using correct pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary and adopting the pragmatic and discourse rules of the spoken language. In other words, they are required to show mastery of the following sub-competencies/ skills. (Based on the book “Practical English Language Teaching Speaking” by Kathleen M. Bailey).

2. Teaching