USING THE FISHBOWL METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’
SPEAKING ABILITY
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
There are four
skills that must
be mastered in
teaching learning English, there are
listening, writing, reading,
and speaking. Speaking is one of
the ability is very important and very necessary in the master in English.
People can interact between each other by speaking, so that other people can
understand what the people talking about. Speakingis support by some components
such as vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension. Qureshi
(2006: 3) defines that speaking are important for career success, but certainly
not limited to one’s professional aspirations. Speaking can also enhance one’s
personal life.
Speaking is the way to express our thoughts, feelings, and
opinions to someone. Based on Alonso (2013: 147) in the field of teaching
second languages, speaking is a demanding skill, with phenomena such as vowel
reduction and elision making the production of good spoken language is
difficult. The elements such as slang and idioms render speaking a difficult
skill to acquire, not to mention stress, rhythm and intonation. In further
difficulty the teacher may explain a rule in the second language so the
learners will often not actually put it into practice to any great extent. Speaking has been extensively
studied in recent years and there is a relate literature of this
research.
The researcher takes review of related
literature from the other research as comparison. The researcher conducted by
DewantiMulkiRahma (2014), and the title is “The Fishbowl Method To Improve The Students’
Speaking Skill (An Experimental Study In Ninth Grade Students Of SMP), the students of State
Islamic Studies Institute”. This research applied the
fishbowl to the students in?????????
