Developing Students’ Speaking Skills through Task-based Learning (original) (raw)

2019, Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society

This study aims to develop the students' speaking skills. The initial data showed the students' problems in speaking due to inadequate knowledge of languaeg: grammar, vocabulaey, pronuncation, fluency, and comprehension. They were not familiar with different communicative tasks.This concern led to a study design as an action research through three cycles conducted in one semester course employing task-based learning. The participants were 15 students of an English Department. The data were taken from the results of pre-test to post test, interview and observation. Quantitative data were analized using SPSS into descriptivestatistics. Qualitative data were elaborated in term of words. The findings indicated that the use of task-based leaning can develop students' speaking skills. The pre-test score shows the value of learning completness was only 20%. The post-test score reveals that the students' speaking skills develop with satisfactory results as 86.6% of 15 students have completed the lesson. The students manage to complete different tasks and to evaluate their learning in pair and group works. This learning experience will enable the students develop their speaking skills significantly in the future.

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