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Using Pair Work to Improve Students` Ability in Speaking EnglishAmelia BiringkanaeE-mail: ameliabiringkanae30@gmail.com Abstract Speaking is productive skill. Speaking as a skill which enables us to produce utterance, when genuinely communicative. Compare with other language skills of second language, speaking is considered to be most difficult to acquire. In language teaching, there are some problems in improving students` speaking skill, especially in English. The problems are the lack of teachers' ability in teaching speaking and the shyness of students to speak in English. The purpose of this study is to know that whether the use of pair work can improve the students` ability in speaking English and their productivity in expressing ideas through pair work strategy. The data are from the students by given oral test. The test divided into two types, namely pre-test and post-test. The pre-test is the speaking test given before treatment. The second test is post-test namely a speaking test through pair work. The results of the quantitative analysis of the data revealed two categories of speaking problem, i.e. problems related to the students` self-confidence in speaking and the teacher (keeping, controlling and helping students to make on effective activities to improve students` speaking ability). Keywords: Pair work; Speaking ability. INTRODUCTION Language can not be separated from human life because all aspects of human life are related to language. By using language, someone can express his or her ideas, thoughts and feelings as well as get information. Without language it is impossible for someone to interact with others perfectly. We cannot deny that mastering speaking is not easy, so learners need extra efforts to master the skill. Speaking skill has become the most prioritized because it involves active ability to speak, i.e., producing spoken English rather than just receiving or reading (Jalaluddin, 2022). The same that other opinion, Speaking skill as the leaner`s ability to produce spoken English, not just listen or read in a way that is meaningful and communicative (Syafii, 2019). In language teaching, there are some problems in improving students` speaking skill, especially in English. The problems are the lack of teachers' ability in teaching speaking and the shyness of students to speak in English. Therefore, English teacher are demanded to be more creative in presenting their lessons.There have been some researches carried out or conducted research about language learning and teaching. For instance, Li Hui (2020) reported that there are some problems faced by the students and teachers in teaching and learning process. Firstly, the text books chosen as teaching materials in the speaking class were long sentence-based stories without providing any communicative or meaningful activities to prompt the students` speaking ability. Secondly, the speaking class was teacher centered. It was the teacher who did most of their talk. The teacher often conveyed the content or knowledge of the text book to the students without letting the students make their own practice. Thirdly, the students were reluctant to speak in the speaking class. Fourthly, because of the environment condition and also because the English language has different grammar structure from Indonesia, it was not easy for the students to speak it as fluently as their native language. In addition, Wayan (2018) also found some problems in teaching and learning process especially in speaking skill. In some cases they perhaps know about some vocabulary that they needs to express about some information or expression but they afraid to make mistake in pronunciation or structure or they feel shy to their friend when do a mistake. In the other cases they know about structure but they have limited vocabulary. The last is that the teacher dominates the teaching activity using Indonesian so it cannot increase students’ speaking skill. From all statements above it can be concluded that there are three major causal problems in teaching and learning speaking. First, the difficulty in the determination of the materials in teaching and learning process. Second, the lack of students` self-confidence in speaking English. Third, the lack of students` knowledge in grammar and vocabulary.However, these reports are not convinced because they just focus on identifying the problems of the students faced in teaching and learning process. Their reports might have been more useful if they had provided adequate explanation for some important efforts required to solve the reported problems. Briefly, such an explanation would be very useful for teachers to design a good and effective strategy in teaching to improve English learning outcomes at junior high school because the teachers are not only informed the problems faced by the students in teaching and learning process, but also given solution to made good English atmosphere in classroom to improve students’ Engli…
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