Aspects in Speaking Skill

SPEAKING SKILL

Speaking is an activity to express ideas orally.

Speaking is one of two productive skills in a language teaching. It is defined as a process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal or oral form (Chaney, 1988:13 and Gebhard, 1996:169). Simply, speaking is a process of building meaningful words to share ideas or information orally. 

Sometimes, as beginner we never think what aspects included in our speaking. We only try to speak and speak in English. Actually, we should know that exactly in speaking skills there are some aspects we should concern.

According to Syakur (2007:4), there are at least five components of speaking skill concerned with comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency.  

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1. Comprehension

For oral communication, it certainly requires a subject to respond, to speech as well as to initiate it.

2.  Grammar

It is needed for students to arrange a correct sentence in conversation. It is inline with explanation suggested by Heaton (1978: 5) that student’s ability to manipulate structure and to distinguish appropriate grammatical form in appropriate ones. The utility of grammar is also to learn the correct way to gain expertise in a language in oral and written form.

3  Vocabulary

One cannot communicative effectively or express their ideas both oral and written form if they do not have sufficient vocabulary. Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed (Willid in Mora,2007:5). So, based on this explanation, the researcher concluded that without mastering vocabulary sufficiently is English learners will not be able to speak English or write English properly.

4.   Pronunciation

Pronunciation is the way for students to produce clearer language when they speak. It deals with the phonological process that refers to the component of a grammar made up of the elements and principles that determine how sounds vary and pattern in a language. There are two features of pronunciation; phonemes and suprasegmental features. A speaker who constantly mispronounces a range of  12phonemes can be extremely difficult for a speaker from another language communityto understand (Gerard, 2007:5). From the statement above, the researcher concluded that pronunciation is theknowledge of studying about how the words in a particular language are producedclearly when people speak. In speaking, pronunciation plays a vital role in order tomake the process of communication easy to understand.

5.  Fluency

Fluency can be defined as the ability to speak fluently and accurately.Fluency in speaking is the aim of many language learners. Signs of fluency include a reasonably fast speed of speaking and only a small number of pauses and “ums” or “ers”. These signs indicate that the speaker does not have spend a lot of time searching for the language items needed to express the message (Brown in Mora,2007:5). From the ideas above, the researcher concluded that another important component is fluency. Fluency means the capability of someone speaks fluently an accurately with little pauses like “ums” and “ers”.

We can conclude, that actually in our speaking should concern in those aspects. Have you had those aspects in your speaking skill? if the answer is no, minimally or at least, you have two or three aspects in your speaking now, step by step we can improve till we get those five aspects. 

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