Using Silent Way Method Article

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Using Silent Way Method in Teaching – Speaking to Increase Speaking Skill for Students at The First Year of SMP Negeri 1 Wedarijaksa - Pati 2011/2012 Academic Year (A Classroom Action Research)

A.    Background of Study

Every human being living in society needs language. Language is an important tool that helps people make communication among individuals or even nations. There are more than thousand languages in the world and they are different each from others. In the modern era, one of international languages is English. English is an International language which has been received by countries all over the world. It functions as a means of communication in meeting business or other activities among government over the world. Besides, English is used at science of knowledge, new invention in field of modern technology, pharmaceutical, medical, etc.

English is international language and it is very important for students to study, so Indonesia government had come English in curriculum, from elementary school until Senior High School, even in University. Since English is needed from any people. Governments of Indonesia think that English is very important to the public, until now they are constantly looking for a way for improving in teaching English. In current years, however the teaching of English is expanding into primary or elementary school. The decree of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia No. 0487/4/1992 chapter VIII states that English can be taught as an extra instruction if it is needed by local community and if the teacher of English is available.

A number of ways of conceptualizing approaches and methods in language teaching have been made. Various attempts have been made to explore more systematically the relationship between  theory and practice within a method in the fifties and sixties, for example, language teaching represented a unified body of theory and practice. It was clearly linked in its theoretical foundation to linguistic and psychology. Language teachers in eighties, however, had considerable array of theories and methods to choose it. Contemporary language teaching draws a number of fields, which are unknown by the linguistic of the fifties and sixties. Methodologies unheard in the sixties are now familiar, such Silent Way, Total Physical Response, Community Language Teaching, Counseling Learning, and Suggestopedia (Fauziati,2002:3). Here the writer would like to conduct a research dealing with the application of Silent Way in teaching English to the first year of SMP Negeri 1 Wedarijaksa-Pati.

There are four skills in learning English, they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Speaking is very important skill relate to communication. Speaking is used to express human idea and to communicate each other. We are much more to speak than other. That’s way; some problem conceives when the writer saw deeply in teaching – speaking in Indonesia that hard to be success with great achievement. Some problem happened in teaching – speaking, from many aspects.

From students that doesn’t be ready yet for delivering their speech because nervous or shy. Many students feel confuse when they are asked question by their teacher and they have to answer with English. Many students are still hard to be good speaker.

There are two problem existed in the school actually. Firstly, the student has less confidence, and ashamed, also nervous when they are asked to speak English.

Students hardly apply between mind and their oral production, so it makes a lot of times. Secondly, the students are less in pronunciation and vocabulary, so it actually influence their speak when they are delivering their idea.

Based on the above statements, the writer will know how far the ability of the first year students of SMP Negeri 1 Wedarijaksa after being taught with speaking by using silent way method. The writer choose the little dealing with method used in the subject above is Using Silent Way Method in Teaching – Speaking to Increase Speaking Skill for Students at The First Year of SMP Negeri 1 Wedarijaksa - Pati 2011/2012 Academic Year. In this research the writer conducts an action research of Silent Way method in Teaching Learning process of English for the First Year of Junior High School students. The writer hopes that the research can be used as a literary by next researcher in different point of view.

B.     Limitation of the Research

In conducting this research, the writer limits the problem that is going to be discussed. This research deals with the implementation of Silent Way to improve peaking skill of the first year of SMP Negeri 1 Wedarijaksa-Pati. Here, the writer explains the implementation of Silent Way can improve speaking skill or not, the strength and weaknesses of Silent Way. This limitation is going to be made in order to make this study easier, effective and efficient.

C.     Problem Statement

Based on the explanation above, the writer will propose the following problems statement:

1.         How is the implementation of Silent Way in teaching-speaking?

2.         How can Silent Way increase speaking skill of the first year student of SMP Negeri 1 Wedarijaksa?

3.         What is the strength and weaknesses of Silent way?

D.    Objective of the Study

Based on the explanation above, the objectives of the study in this research are:

1.   To know the implementation of Silent way in teaching – speaking.

2.   To explain how Silent Way works to increase speaking skill.

3.   To show the strength and weaknesses of Silen
E. Benefit of the Study

1.      Theoretically

This research is done by the writer to extensively our knowledge about method that to be effective if we use it in teaching-learning process.

2.      Practically

a.       The students

This research will be used to increase English achievement especially in teaching-speaking.

b.      The teacher

This research provides method that to be effective to the teacher in width option for teaching speaking.

c.       The other researcher

This research will be helpful for the students to understand about teaching – speaking by using silent way.