AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE INTENSIVE PROGRAM OF SMP NURUL JADID (LIPS) IN PAITON AS AN EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAM IN SUPPORTING SPEAKING ABILITY

English is definitely an important language of the world. All of the countries make English as an international language and second language. In English, there are four skills that must be mastered by students’ namely listening, writing, reading, and speaking. Among the four skills, speaking is often considered to be the most importance skill. Therefore, the activities of the learning should encourage and support the student’s learning speaking. This study focused on the LIPS extracurricular conducted by Junior High School of Nurul Jadid in supporting speaking ability. The purposes of this study were (1) to investigate the activities of LIPS in supporting speaking ability; (2) to investigate the activities implemented of LIPS in supporting speaking ability, (3) to investigate the facilities of LIPS in supporting speaking ability; and (4) to know the advantages of LIPS in supporting speaking ability. This study was a qualitative research. The researcher used documentation, observation and interview to get the data. Moreover, the subjects of this study were the instructor, the mentors of LIPS, and the English teachers. The result of this study showed that the activities of LIPS extracurricular of Nurul Jadid were storytelling, debate, news reading, and speech activity. The implementation of those activities was mostly the same. It was initiated by making an article then moved to present it to the audience, the mentor’s comment on every activity, and then ended by conclusion. The facilities of LIPS extracurricular were; dormitory, basic speaking book, dictionary, chair, table, whiteboard, marker, and wireless speaker. The advantages of LIPS extracurricular were; students had a lot of English vocabularies, students were fluent in speaking, and students could use good intonation