ApplyingWhole Language Approach and Public Speaking Activity in Smart Ekselensia High School  

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Rosaline, Lisa ; Asykari, Amru

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: 57th TEFLIN International Conference: Revitaziling professionalis in ELT as a response to the globlazed world, Bandung, 1-3 November 2010
Topik: Classroom Practices; Whole Language Approach; Public Speaking; Competence Standard Curriculum.
Fulltext: Lisa Rosaline & Amru Asykari.pdf (141.9KB)

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Whole Language Approach (WLA) is the approach to learn language that focus on the real communication, reading and writing in the fun learning environment context. (Richard and Rodgers, 2001). The teachers of WLA believe that the students should learn the materials in unity, without separated them to small parts. Moreover Senior High School Students are encouraged to be able to develop their four language skills based on Competence standard and school based curriculum (KTSP) namely listening, reading, writing and speaking. Public speaking is the act of speaking on a particular subject in front of a group of people with the intention of influencing, entertaining or informing the listeners. In order to be a good orator one must be able to influence people, change their opinion, and transform the emotion of the listeners as pertaining to that particular subject. This study involved 102 of 3rd to 5th year grade students of Smart Ekselensia High School, Bogor, Indonesia. The public English speaking activity has been held for 6 months. It was held 4 times a week, twice a week in the morning and twice a week in the afternoon. The public speaking can be in form of story telling, general speech, and religious speech. Before the students performed the public speaking, they had to prepare the material such as a story or a book summary and in this a part of Whole Language approach application. Instrument used to obtain the data were questionnaires and interviews. The use of questionnaire in this study aimed at gathering statistical data and open responses about what students think and feel about the public speaking activity. Whole language approach makes the students become independent learners and public speaking encourage the students to speak in front of others. Based on the findings, basically students can improve their four language skills as expected in Competence Standard and School Based Curriculum (KTSP) although it still can not be seen directly. According to the result of the interview, some students suggest the whole language approach and public speaking be continued. They also suggest the frequency be added more in order to encourage them to speak English and create a good English environment.

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