IMPROVING INDONESIAN STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH ENGLISH DORMITORY

Jalaluddin Jalaluddin

Authors

Jalaluddin Jalaluddin STKIP Paracendekia NW Sumbawa

Keywords:

EDA, English Teaching, Speaking Skill, Communicative Skill.

Abstract

Most recently, speaking skill has become the most prioritized skill taught to Indonesian learners. The reason of this is simply to prepare the learners to compete in global world. Despite many theories and literatures have been proposed to address the effective ways of teaching speaking skill, no satisfactory result has been achieved. One of practical strategies is English Dormitory Activity (EDA). EDA is very effective to increase the learners’ spoken ability for three main reasons. First, the participants are immersed fully in an English environment during EDA. Second, the program triggers learners’ willingness to communicate in English. Lastly, it offers more practical speaking skill to students.

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