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the research, scope and delimitation of the research, definition of the key terms, and research paper organization. A. Background of the Research.
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This chapter discusses about background of the research, research problems, objectives of the research, research hypothesis, significance of the research, scope and delimitation of the research, definition of the key terms, and research paper organization.
A. Background of the Research Speaking is the process of communication or interaction with other people in order to access the information and have a good relation in the daily life. Thornbury (2007:1) states “Speaking is so much a part of daily life that we take it to granted.” By speaking, people can express their ideas and purposes orally to the listeners. Because of that, learning speaking needs more practice especially for foreign language. Speaking skill is one of language skill that must be mastered by any foreign language learner. As we know that English used as an international language, it becomes the reason of why the people is competing to master English as an communication tool in this globalization era.
Currently, mastering English is one of factors that can determine the successfulness of people in studying, business or career. However, there are many barriers to be an English master. For the people who want to have good competence in communicating by using English, he or she must learn all aspects in English early included pronounciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Besides, he or she must build the self confidence and bravery in speaking English. Those can be used as the important aspects to get the successfulness in speaking English. According to Brown (1994:217), there are four language skills that must be mastered in English learning, among as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Speaking skill is important to many language learners who are involved in the spoken language, especially to the students. In the reality, many people have learned English for years but they are still incapable and awkward to speak English orally. It is caused by of the situation or place where the people stay. The limitation of people that used English for communication in they daily life also make them limited practice even forget some vocabularies or some parts in speaking English. Lack of vocabularies will make difficulties in speaking or communicating with other people that have been skillful in English. In other reason, the people have some problems in psychology like feeling nervous, shy, worry and fear of making mistake. It means that the peoples have low self-concept
Commonly, there are many perceptions that teaching should be serious in order to achieve the target of learning, but if the students become lazy and do not interest, it will be make them not really learning. The students will be bored, lack concentration, even cheating. The perception is actually wrong because we can make the teaching and learning in class more fun, enjoyable and easy to be understood. So, the researcher are going to use an alternative technique in teaching speaking by using guessing game technique, in which students are expected to be involved actively in speaking class. Klippel (19 8 4:3 1 ) says that the basic rule of guessing games is eminently simple; one person knows something that another one wants to find out. How this is done is determined by an additional sets of rules. These rules lays down, for example, the type and number of questions. The thing to be guessed differ greatly from game to game. It can be something one player is thinking of, an object seen only by one person, a word, an activity, or lots of other things. According to Byrne (1987:21), name the object, say something about the object, say what they would do with the object if they had it, make up sentence using the object, link the object on the right to the left object. So, guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind information, such as a word, a phrase, title, or the location of the object.
Based on the statements above, the researcher assumes that applying guessing game technique is effective toward the students’ speaking skill because it gives students more chance to practice and gives more opportunities to the students to make turn in speaking during the times allocated. The researcher tought that games are combination between language and fun. The students can practice and express their idea freely because they do the activities with their friends. The researcher want to know whether the use of game is effective or not in teaching speaking. So, the researcher is interested to conduct the research to see the effectiveness of using guessing game technique toward the eight grade students’ speaking skill at MTs Negeri Bandung.
B. Research Problems
F. Significance of the Research The significance of the research are: a) Teacher If the result of this study is hopefully useful as input of teacher teaching speaking, gave more experience and motivation as input which could be expended into various strategies in teaching and learning process, the teacher could reflect and reform his way of teaching in order to make it more interesting and succesful. b) Students The result of this study will be expected to make the students have higher motivation in expressing and communicating their English in speaking and students may have good skill in speaking if students always practice in their daily activities. Students that have problems of speaking can be used it as input and idea in improving speaking skill. c) Future Researcher The researcher believes that the result of this research had not perfect yet. So, the researcher hopes that the future researcher who will conduct the same research by applying guessing game technique can be better and complete this thesis.
G. Definition of Key Terms In this part, there are some explanations from the topic of the study and the title mentioned in the previous item. The title is “The Effectiveness of Using Guessing Game Technique towards the Eight Grade Students’ Speaking Skill at MTs Negeri Bandung”. The definition of key terms as follows:
: a way of game to guess an object such as a verb, noun, abstract noun, or phrase by giving many clues to the guessers as much as possible. In guessing system, every student has time and chance to practice speaking and gives the clues to others until they can guess it correctly.
Chapter V presents the conclusion of the research and suggestion for further research to be better.