proposal seminar opinion gap technique

1. The Background of Study

            Language is the most important means of communication. People use a language to communicate with others to express to express their personal ideas and to stimulate someone’s responces. Many occupations need someone who has mastered English skills well. English has four skills; they are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. All of the skills are highly required.

            English is a language which is widely spoken in the world, no other language is more widely studied or used as a foreign language than English. People have many reasons to take a great interest to the language, they realize that English is very important as a medium for communication with foreigner. Now a day, English is used as an international language and many important books are written in English.

            There are for skills of English; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The language skills can not be separated from one another. But in this study, the writer only focused on the speaking skill. This skill is very important in learning a language. Linda Flower (2001) states that speaking is even more important as a way to communicate and share the information between one and other people.

            In the international relationship, English ability is important to be able to participate in their society. The speaking skill is measured in terms or the ability to carry out a conversation in the language. This reality makes teachers and parents think that speaking ability should be mastered to their children and students.

            Many learners are not able to speak English well because they seldom to practice it in their days caused of nervous. They feel afraid to make some errors in speaking English so, they decide to be quiet. They are afraid their friends will mock them whether they make errors in talking.
            Using opinion gap technique is very effective to improve the learners speaking skill. But this method makes students brave to speak. This method needs the speaker to be active because if the speakers are passive those acivities can not be entered.
            Pronunciation and vocabulary is also the most problem for common English learners. Both must be mastered by learner in other that they can communicate. Without English vocabulary learners cannot communicate in English. And without pronunciation mastery the misunderstanding between learners can be occurred. So pronunciation is very important. Many learners have problem in vocabularies and pronunciations even many vocabularies they know but they still do not know how to say those words correctly. Indeed pronounciation has rules that can be learnt.

            In other hands, many learners are not motivated to talk English. This problem can be solved by giving some effective methods to them by their teacher. Here English the writer is challenged to help students like that to give some effective methods to improve their skill in speaking, it is by using Opinion Gap technique.

Based on the explanation above, the writer is interest to select the topic for this study; “Using Opinion Gap Technique to Teach Speaking Skill“, An Experiment at Class I Students of SMA 1 Negeri 3 Sigli.

 2. The Problem of Study.

1. In the conjunction to the background of the study that presented above. The writer focuses on the listening comprehension and the students’ errors in the classroom. Because of this, it is possible for the writer to formulate her problem as the follow:

“Do the students who are taught using Opinion Gap technique can get higher score than those who are taught without Opinion Gap technique ?”

3. The Hypothesis.

The hypothesis of this study can be formulated as follow: “If the teachers use Opinion Gap technique in teaching speaking process, the speaking ability of students will be improve“.
4. The Purpose of Study.

After opinion gap technique is implemented in SMA 1 Negeri Sigli, the writer hope that this technique can be used by the teachers in improving student’s speaking ability. The writer also hopes this technique can make students enjoy in studying and will not worry to try speak English in every occasion.
5. Scope of Study.

Limiting the scope of necessary is an objective research for it allow the writer to cover the whole of relevan things. In line with this, writer would like to confine himself to explain only about using opinion gap technique in speaking class. The writer also want to know wether the students scores of speaking taught by using opinion gap technique will better or not. The subject of this research is the first year students of SMA 1 Negeri 3 Sigli.
6. Populations and Samples.

6.1. The Populations

The populations of this study is the students of the first year of SMA Negeri 3 Sigli, there are four classes total number of the first year are 140 students.

6.2. The Samples.

As a sample, the writer takes two classes. Class X’1 that consist of 35 students and class X’2 has 35 students too.

7. The Methods

·        Speaking is a little more formal and suggest that someone is using their voice or that one person is saying something to a group.

·        Opinion gap is

Experimental of Study

To investigate and to get information about the effectiveness of opinion gap technique, the writer will make experimental teaching. In this case, the writer will teach the speaking skill. Two classes are become the samples of research, one class will be as the experimental class and one other will be a control class. The writer will teach speaking by using opinion gap technique for experimental class. And for the control class, the writer will teach traditional/habitual technique.

2.      Treatment

In this section, in experimental class, the writer will use opinion gap technique by telling a story case for the students and then ask them to give answer, response, opinion by using oral according to the case. But for the control class, the writer will give method without opinion gap technique.

3.      Manipulations

The last step of the lesson, the writer will ask every student to give solution by oral about the case and ask them to debate among student and student to defense their opinion and solution.

8. The organization of The Study.

            This thesis consists of five chapters:

·        Chapter one is introduction that include the background of study, the problem of the study, the aim of study, the significant of the study, the research question and hypothesis, operational definition, the scope of study, and the organization of study;

·        Chapter two will explain about literature preview consists of introduction of daily activities in speaking, new vocabulary introduction, and explanation of grammar;

·        Chapter three is about methodology that consists of the location of the research, populations of sample, the research methodology;

·        Chapter four is about data processing; and

·        Chapter five is consists of conclusion and suggestion.

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·        Djauhari, Imam D. 1983. Mastery of English Grammar. Uraian Lengkap Tentang Penguasaan Tata Bahasa Inggris. Surabaya: Penerbit Indah.

·        Pretty, Green. 1973. Development Language Skills in the Elementary School. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc.