Express your English by Speak Up

Hello everyone it’s been a while no see my works on my personal blog, right? In this semester we learn about ‘Critical Reading’, which we read to kind of educational, that is English learning. How it will be going? First step that we should do is searching to international journal of  English learning. In this step you should search the journal as your interest, such as listening, reading, writing, speaking, etc. Because I really interest in Speaking learning, so I’m looking for about the strategy of speaking English. The reason I really like to speaking subject is because I think speaking is important for us when we learn  English. It will be pointless if we got high scores in written examinations but have no brave to speak up in English. And I found out ‘Teaching Speaking Skills in English Language using Classroom Activities in Secondary School Level in Eldoret Municipality, Kenya” So, what are discussions in this journal? Here you can read below :

Abstract

Keywords : speaking skills, clasroom activities, English, language, motivation, teacher, learner

1.      Introduction

2.      Method

3.      Results

3.1  Teachers’ Response

3.2  Students’ Response

3.3  Observed Lessons

4.      Discussion

4.1  Variation on use of Classroom Activities

4.2  Motivation

4.3  Teacher’s Role

4.4  Learner’s Role

5.      Conclusion

5.1  Recommendation

6.      References

1.      Introduction

In Kenya English is taught as a second language, which is English used in all government communications, compulsory subject in educational system. Although colonialist has been used English for linguistic imperialism in Kenya, but it still find different way in the use of English, such as Kenya Educational system, official language used in office, media houses, courts, diplomacy, used to do all government business and an international language (Chesang, 2005).

Moreover, learners in Kenya have trouble in using English, even they smart to answer all English questions, but they always get difficulties how to speak English properly. They have no brave to speak up in English, also they accustomed to change their English to use Sheng, Kishwahili when they do group discussion. According to Alharbi (2015) there are several factors that influence learning of speaking skill for example use of mother tongue outside and inside classroom environment, low status of English in a country, learners’ negative attitude towards English language, use of mother tongue by teachers to explain difficult concept, use of teacher-centered methodology and passiveness of learners, in classroom.

Curriculum also influence succesful of the use English. In Kenya use 8-4-4 which this gives bad impact for learners because they should learn English in short time due to large number of students in class, students low knowledge and cultural related factors. And the teachers also use traditional teaching approaches, becuase the teachers don’t  have time to make good syllabus. This is definitely have bad feedback for the learners in English learning, such as the learners feel embarassing in front of their friends because they do some mistakes in speaking English.

There are revised syllabus of teaching of English Speaking in secondary schools in Kenya that released by KIE in 2002 : (i) attentive listening for comprehension, correct inference, interpretation and appropriate response from spoken discourse from spoken discourse, (ii) fluency and confidence in speaking in a variety of contexts, (iii) effective use of non-verbal cues while speaking, (iv) capacity to read, analyze and appreciate literary works, (v) capacity to use a variety of sentence structures and vocabularies correctly, (vi) think creatively and critically and (vii) communicate appropriately in functional and creative writing. Wished to the teachers can implemented the syllabus in order that learners have improvement in English speaking skill and more communicative by secondary school students.

The researcher said that there are some ways to improve students to participate in the classroom of  English speaking,  these activities are group discussion, speeches storytelling, drama, debates, poem recitation, songs, and tongue-twisters (Johnson, 2006,Villegas and Lukas, 2002, Gathumbi and Masembe, 2005,Okech, 2005). These activities will make students feel comfortable, they think it’s okay if they make mistake because they do the activities with their friends, it also advance students confident to speaking English properly.

We just ended up to the introduction of the journal, next week i’ll share about the other discussions. If you curious about it, you can visit my blog. Don’t forget to read whole my works and give some comment, such as critics and motivational comments. Your support really help me to improve the blog.

Here’s the link of the journal : https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1086371