Students' Perspectives on Classroom Speaking Activity: The existing speaking activity and recommended classroom speaking activity

摘要

As a foreign learners, Indonesian students tend to feel unwilling to produce the oral English language acquisition speaking because of plenty reasons. The common pop up reasons are English is hard to get, it is perplexing and they are incapable of being relax while doing speaking. Moreover, the speaking activity implemented in the classroom often do not adequate students' interest. This study aimed to verify the students' perception about classroom speaking activity (CSA) in which CSA would become the most interesting for them to be taught through CSA arranged by Harmer. Qualitative method was conducted as the research of the study. Participants of a Junior high school in Cilacap, of both sexes, grade 7, were asked to fill out a questionnaire about speaking activity. The main finding of the study were male students have more interest in learning speaking. Both male and females students have the same perceptions toward the most popular and disliked classroom speaking activity. In conclusion, the findings of this study can help teachers for designing future CSA.