The Importance Of Speaking Skills In English

Background

According to Zuliati (2013) Speaking is an important language skills, in which communications take an important role in the world of information, speaking is a spoken language that is taught in the era of globalization. Because of speaking, students can communicate with other students in our country or different countries, we can share ideas and opinions. There are some people who see the skills of the student based on their speaking skills and not of language skills. Students can effectively use speaking skills.

The use of English has become popular nowadays. English can make the students’ communicate with strangers in the world. When someone makes a trip abroad, English language is also very useful because it is accepted as an international language. In Indonesia, many schools which develop into the International schools based on standards that use English as the instructional language in all subjects. Therefore, speaking is a very important skill to get to the carrier and education. (Ridyani: 2009)

The Indonesian government supports the subjects taught in English from the start of primary school, although students learn English at school with quite a long time, many of them still have many problems in speaking. In fact, the students difficult to speak actively in English classrooms, they tend to be passive and just be passive speakers. This may be caused by psychological factors, such as the fear of making mistakes, shame, and low motivation. Unfornutely,