Coping With Difficulties In Teaching SpeakingTo Students Of Smp N 2 Kartasura

• Main Author: NOVITASARI , FAJAR (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2012.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/1/2._halaman_depan.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/2/3._chapter_1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/3/4._chapter_2.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/5/5._chapter_3.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/7/6._chapter_4.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/9/7._chapter_5.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/12/8._BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/17575/14/9._lampiran.pdf
• Keywords: LC Special aspects of education

The objective of the research is to describe the teaching speaking learning process in SMP N 2 Kartasura which includes opening, core learning (Exploration, elaboration, and confirmation), and closing. In addition, this is to find the difficulties faced by the teacher in teaching speaking to students of junior high school, SMP N 2 Kartasura. Besides, the research is also designed to know the strategies used by the teacher in coping with the difficulties in teaching speaking. This is a descriptive qualitative research. The writer applies a case study including several steps, observation, interview, and analyze document. The subject of the research is the teacher of the first year students of SMP N 2 Kartasura which consists of class a and b. The methods of collecting data are observation, interview, and document analysis. To analyze qualitative data she applied critical analytical technique. The result of this research shows that there are several difficulties faced by the teacher in teaching speaking. The difficulties in teaching speaking faced by the teacher are students' anxiety, students' motivation, class management, and students' linguistic difficulty. In addition, to cope with those difficulties, the teacher uses several strategies such as creating less formal condition, drilling vocabulary and pronunciation, monitoring and controlling, making group, working in pair, and jigsaw. So, the students feel interested in learning speaking.