TEACHING
SPEAKING BY USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)
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There
are 4 skills of language ability that should be learnt by students who learn
English, they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Each of
them is important in order to make the students be competent in English. In
class, an English teacher should make the students be able to speak English
fluently. It’s difficult for the teacher stimulates and motivates the students
to speak in English, sometimes, each of them is too shy to try to speak
English, because each of students has different characteristics in express
their opinion, feeling in English, so it need the teacher’s role to stimulate
and motivate the students to speak up in English.
The
objective of teaching speaking skills is to make the students be able communicative
efficiency. Students should try speaks in English by concerning their
pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, and to observe the social and cultural
rules that apply in each communication situation.
The
teacher’s role has to develop the students’ communicative efficiency in
speaking by using some interactive activities which can stimulate the students
speaking skills. Nowadays, Information Technology (IT) has developed
increasingly, it also give positive effect for the teaching learning activity,
especially IT can help the teaching speaking for the students in order to help
the teacher motivate and stimulate the students to speak English easily in
class. Students are increasingly being trained—in grade schools and high
schools—using various kinds of multimedia instruction. An activity that can
reflect is the teacher teaching speaking to the students by using interactive
video. Video with multimedia games that is shown to the students in front of
class, and then the students should give the opinion about the video, so it can
stimulate the students to speak up.
IT
or multimedia allows a user to seek information and construct knowledge in a
variety of ways, and it frequently relies on problem solving as a basis for
understanding— using images and video of real world experience to help
illustrate abstract principles or concepts. It also may allow the students to
know more information, examples, illustrations, and problems to solve.
Teaching
speaking by using IT gives positive effect for teacher and students. A recent
article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 5, 1993) examined claims that
using technology can make college teaching and learning more effective and
found that while scepticism remains and researchers are still uncertain,
faculty members using technology believe it’s improving their students’
learning, and making them more productive. But, the teacher should encourage students
to think like experts, including getting them to understand problem–solving
processes and to critique solutions to problems; make thinking visible, so that
the process of learning, not just the result, is emphasized; scaffold knowledge,
building on what students already know, so that they can understand and form
general principles from new information.
Nowadays, teaching speaking also can be applied by using skype or video call. Skype is an internet software used for having conversation with someone who long distance with us. This application can be used for teacher teaching speaking with the students. And there are many English teaching speaking application by using IT that can be used by teacher for teach the students in classroom.
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