Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

Students’ Perspectives on Classroom Speaking Activity: The existing speaking activity and recommended classroom speaking activity

Authors
Khairunnisa Khairunnisa
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Khairunnisa Khairunnisa
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.317How to use a DOI?
Keywords
classroom speaking activities; English speaking; students’ perception
Abstract

As a foreign learners, Indonesian students tend to feel unwilling to produce the oral English language acquisition speaking because of plenty reasons. The common pop up reasons are English is hard to get, it is perplexing and they are incapable of being relax while doing speaking. Moreover, the speaking activity implemented in the classroom often do not adequate students’ interest. This study aimed to verify the students’ perception about classroom speaking activity (CSA) in which CSA would become the most interesting for them to be taught through CSA arranged by Harmer. Qualitative method was conducted as the research of the study. Participants of a Junior high school in Cilacap, of both sexes, grade 7, were asked to fill out a questionnaire about speaking activity. The main finding of the study were male students have more interest in learning speaking. Both male and females students have the same perceptions toward the most popular and disliked classroom speaking activity. In conclusion, the findings of this study can help teachers for designing future CSA.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-749-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.317How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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