THE CORRELATION BETWEEN BRAINSTORMING AND SPEAKING ABILITY
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the ProblemThe teaching of English covers four skills, namely reading, writing, speaking and listening. Listening and reading are said to be receptive, while speaking and writing are said to be productive. Of four language skills above, the writer focuses on speaking and writing since they are productive skills which enable people to communicate skill which enable us to produce utterances, when genuinely to communicate, speaking is desire and purpose-driven. In other words, we genuinely want to communicatesomething to achieve a particular end.
Since speaking is a skill which enables us to communicate, it is very important as Nunan (1991:39) states that most people mastering the art of speaking is single most important aspect of learning a second or foreign language, and success is measured in terms of the ability to carry out a conversation in the language.
We cannot deny that mastering speaking is not easy, so learners need extra efforts to master the skill. Therefore, English teachers are demanded to be more creative in presenting their lessons, especially the speaking subject since it is considered as the difficult skill to be master ed, learning to speak is obviously more difficult than learning to understand the spoken language. More effort is required on part of the students, and more sequential arrangement of activities is required on the part of the teachers. Rasyid in Rahman (1995) also points out that most students of English need to learn how to use the language rather than how to analyze it. They will do this best if they themselves practice the language.
The Way which enables people to communicate namely in Brainstorming. According to Isaksen (1998: 3) brainstorming is abbreviated summary of how Osborn actually presented this well-known group approach to idea generation is given.
The students tend to find many difficulties to produce a good speaking in English. Sometimes they find the difficulties in finding ideas and getting confused to start, they do not know how to arrange the vocabulary which they into good sentences and ??????
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