Analyzing the Communicativeness of Students’ Speaking Skill Tasks

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.310How to use a DOI?

Keywords

speaking task; appropriateness of assessment; speaking assessment

Abstract

In some cases of speaking learning process, there are still many inappropriate tasks given by the teachers. The objective of this study is to analyze the communicativeness in students’ speaking task. The participant of this study was an English teacher in one Senior high school in Lampung. A qualitative case study was used as the research design that employed three data collection techniques. The data collection techniques were class observations, interviews, and document analysis. The researcher used using seven checklists of communicative tasks proposed by Nunan as a guideline to analyze the students’ speaking task. Through this study, the result revealed that the task in speaking skill used by teacher had the limitation occurring in some aspects included in the task, such as the goals and rationale, input, activities, roles and setting, implementation, grading and integration, and assessment. Based on these findings, it was concluded that there were still inappropriate speaking tasks given to the students. In designing the better speaking tasks, this study is expected to be one of the references for teacher to teach speaking skill.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - Teika Ameiratrini
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TI  - Analyzing the Communicativeness of Students’ Speaking Skill Tasks
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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