Teaching method is
something which officially important for you as the teacher if you want your
student successfully facing the real world in the future. Further, teaching speaking
is a challenging responsibility as there are many problems related to everyday
practice (Sinatra, 2010). More, teacher should be creative in developing
students’ speaking ability. Thus, a task-based activity becomes a solution for
speaking problem, underlining the use of language is a medium to improve
students’ vocabularies and the way they perform by their own way. Knowing the
effects of this approach is not less significant to consider.
Firstly, students tend to be active and participate
with great motivation towards tasks and activities in a TBL environment. It
offers a platform for students to display their skills through their efforts
and develops them further. By that reason, my opponent said that task-based learning requires a high level of creativity
and initiative on the part of the teacher. If the teachers are limited to more
traditional roles or do not have time and resources to implement task-based
teaching; this type of teaching may be impossible to apply in speaking
class. Moreover, students will
be bored by the same method that thaught more and over. However, as the teacher
is a must for the them having a high level of creativity, especially in this
type. In addition, we live on globalization area nowadays which all the things
served through internet. There are a lot of sources can take by the teacher to
cover their creativity problem. More, the one thing which is really important
in speaking class is students’ willingness to speak more. Furthermore, TBLT is
more student-centred. This allows them to use all the language forms they know
and to learn them (Willis, 2006). Hence, in this type of learning, the
creativity of teacher can still be defeated by the desire of students to speak
and explore their knowledge and also improve their vocabularies. From this
situation, teacher can also take the advantages from students by what they want
to to explore in real-life situation.
Secondly, the interaction
is believed to facilitate language aqcuisition as students have to try to
understand each other and to express their own meaning. On the other hand, some
people might think that the classroom situation in the teaching and learninng
is not conductive. Learners often feel afraid to say things in a foreign
language classroom by the reasons that they worried in making mistakes, simply
shy of the attention that their speech attracts. However, this condition
becomes the duty for teachers to discover the problem. Surely, teacher here is
expected to give the same turn to the students to express their opinion about
the material or object which is discussing. Here are four steps that suggested
by Ur in his book (1999:120); First, much of the time should be used for the
activity involving learners to talk. So, in this situation precisely teacher
should apply the student-center method. Second, classroom activity should not
be dominated by talkative participants. Teacher here should take control for
those students and give a chance for others to speak evenly. Third, learners
are eager to speak because they are interested in topic. From the topic,
learners have something to say about it, they want to contribute their own
meaning with regard to target or objective. Last, learners express themselves
in utterance that interdependent, easily comprehensible to each other, and of
an acceptable level of language accuracy.
Thirdly, it is enjoyable
and motivating. I strongly believed that the learners can enjoy the task
because it can accomodate any level of students and provide them with
interesting activities focusing on the meaning rather than form. Teacher may
provide the students with key vocabulary or grammatical constructs, these will
be presented as suggestions and the students will be encouraged to use what
they are comfortable with in order to complete the task. Then, while the
learners enjoying that media, they will attract to explore and increase their
language capability. Murni (2008) stated that task-based learning adopted all
thinking concepts that the learners should be the first position. In addition,
the goals may refer to a range of general outcomes (communicative, affective,
and cognitive). Goals are not always explicitely stated, and also a task does
not always have a single goal. A complex task may involve a range of activities
that move the learners towards several goals (Nunan, 1989:48-49).The task may
also completed by using pictures, audio recordings, or video materials, and
demonstrating the task. In addition, communicative goals include following
categories: Establishing and mantaining interpersonal relationships, and
through these to exchange information, ideas, opinions, attitudes, and feeling,
and to get things done; acquiring information from more or less public sources
in the target language. In other word, in this task, students or learners are
free exploring and express their idea based on their own language.
In conclusion, task-based
learning and teaching or TBLT is very potential to apply in speaking classroom.
Therefore, good comunication and cooperation between teacher and students is
needed in this method; the teacher should be able to design the task which are
suiteble to the students’ needs and curriculum, and the design of task should
consider students’ interest in the classroom. In addition, based on the
advantages that stated before, I believe that task-based learning is method
that compatible to apply in speaking class.
References
Cahyono, B.Y. 2010. The Teaching of English language
Skills and English Language Component. Malang: State University of Malang
Press.
Nunan, D. 1989. Designing
Task for The Communicative Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sinatra, A.F.
2009. Optimizing Task-Based Activity to Improve Students’ Speaking Ability.
Surakarta: Sebelas Maret University.
Ur, P. 1999. A Course
in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Willis, J. 2006. Task
Based Language Learning. Retrieved from http: //www.wikipedia.org
By: Agung Bimo
Baskoro
Persuasive Academic
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