THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO TEACH SPEAKING TO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (A Case Study at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 12 Surakarta in Second Term of 2014/2015 Academic Year)

Abstract

The obectives of this study are: (1) finding out whether or not the teaching documents (syllabus, lesson plan, materials, and students’ evaluation) in accordance with the rules of constructing scientific approach based teaching documents set by the government; (2) comprehending whether or not the stages of the teaching learning in the classroom in accordance with the order of scientific approach: Observing, Questioning, Experimenting, Associating, Communicating, Creating (OQEACC); (3) knowing how the interaction go (interaction among students and interaction between teacher and students); (4) understanding the difficulties experienced by the teacher in implementing the new curriculum and find out the solution of the difficulties; (5) discerning the students’ speaking achievement in 2013 Curriculum. This study employs case study method which had been conducted to seventh grade students at SMP Negeri 12 Surakarta. The result of this study are: (1) the teaching documents, consisting of syllabus, lesson plan, materials, and evaluation are made appropriately according to the rules of constructing scientific approach based teaching documents set by the government; (2) the steps of scientific approach in the classroom are not always completely implemented and do not always run in the order of OQEACC, moreover the questioning step does not happen in the class; (3) types of teacher-student interaction are imitative, intensive, responsive, transactional, and interpersonal; while types of student-student interaction are intensive, transactional, interpersonal, and extensive; (4) the difficulties found are: making students ask question in questioning step; the condition that students are not courageous enough to speak, having low inquiry skill, and limited knowledge in English makes them not able to produce spoken English well; and the limitation of the course book content (5) the students’ achievement on speaking shows that 87.93% of 116 students have scores which are above the passing grade determined by the school, which is 67. From the finding, it is known that there are some points to notice toward scientific approach implementation, such as the completeness and the sequence of scientific approach steps, the difficulties, and the materials. Keywords: Scientific Approach, 2013 Curriculum, speaking, junior high school