TEACHING AND LEARNING SPEAKING BY USING SMALL GROUP
DISCUSSION METHOD AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF
THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF MA MA’ARIF I BUMI
MULYA PAKUAN RATU WAY KANAN
IN 2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR
Speaking does to express the meaning in conversation. It will influence the meaning
which received when the speaker did the mistake in speaking. The speaker has to
choose the appropriate words in speaking to make someone understand the meaning.
Teaching and learning speaking by using small group discussion at the first semester
of the eleventh grade in the class was the research object.
The subjects of this research were eleventh grade students of MA 1 Bumi Mulya
Kecamatan Pakuan Ratu Kabupaten Way Kanan and the English teacher. The data
was gotten by them, started from interview to the teacher to get the information about
the teacher’s problems, teaching and learning process, and student’s problem. Then
observe the teaching and learning process in the class, and give the questionnaire to
students to get the data to know the information deeply. Triangulation of method was
used to make the data become valid; those were observation, interview, and
questionnaire.
Based on the data analysis, the conclusions were found that shown that, first, teaching
and learning speaking by using small group discussion occurred unwell because there
were some steps lost. Second the teacher’s problem was English teacher it selves.
Third the students’ problem was students difficult to learn and understand about
speaking lesson
