Learning English Case Study

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Chapter I
Introduction
A. Background of Study
English is a necessary subject in educational curriculum in Indonesia. It is learned from junior high school until university level. There are four skills that should be mastered by learners in learning English, one of that is speaking. Speaking is an important skill that gets more attention both in first and second language. (Yilma, 2015).
Speaking is a compulsory course, in the level of university especially in English education major of UIN Ar-Raniry. It should be taken and mastered by students like the other skills (reading, listening, and writing) which are studied in four semesters. Speaking 1 in first semester, speaking 2 in second semesters, speaking 3 in third semesters and in fourth semester …show more content…

In achieving it, the suitable teaching strategy is needed. Also, Anjaniputra (2013) said that teaching speaking is getting great concern in many language programs, and the teaching strategy influence teaching result. According to Thomson (2012) teaching strategy is a term that refers to educational philosophy, method, book, curriculum, technique, system and procedure that are used by teacher in teaching and learning proses. In addition, Toohey (2000 as cited in Chandrasekaran, 2008) stated that teaching strategies are the whole activities and resources that teacher use in facilitating student to learn. Every single teacher has his/her own teaching strategies.
Nevertheless, there is no one proper teaching strategy for all classrooms. It depends on class size and students type. Vandenberg (2012) noted that high qualify teachers to teach classrooms of students is purely not enough; the number of students gave to a teacher is also important. Class size is a term refers to the number of student in a course or classroom, Particularly either, (1) the number of students teach in a course or classroom by teacher or (2) or the average number of students in a school, district, or education system teach by teacher, S. Abbott (2014 as cited in Thang). And, Blatchfort et al (2003) from analyzing full statistic got little evidence and he said ‘the classroom processes had a mediating role in the relation between class size and

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