Technique Used by the Teacher to Develop Students' Speaking Skill at the Eighth Grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surakarta in 2018/2019 Academic Year

The research aims at describing (1) the techniques used by the English teacher to develop students’ speaking skill at the eighth grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surakarta in 2018/2019 academic year, (2) the obstacles faced by the English teacher to develop students’ speaking skill, and (3) the way the English teacher solves the obstacles faced to develop students’ speaking skill. This research is a case study. The data of the research were all facts related to teacher’s effort to develop students’ speaking skill which cover the teaching technique used by the English teacher to develop students’ speaking skill, the obstacles found, and teacher’s effort in solving the obstacles. The sources of data were the process of teaching and learning speaking in the classroom and teacher and the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surakarta in 2018/2019 academic year. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation and interview. The technique used in analyzing the data was descriptive analysis. After analyzing the data, the researcher concluded that (1) the English teacher used five techniques, namely (a) presentation, (b) question and answer, (c) practicing together, (d) practicing conversation in pair work, and (e) performing conversation in front of the class; (2) the teacher faced four obstacles to develop students’ speaking skill, namely (a) students had low motivation to learn English, (b) the students were shy to speak English, (c) the students had few vocabulary, and (d) students were confused about the expressions; and (3) the teacher tried several ways to solve the obstacles to develop students’ speaking skill above, namely explaining the importance of English in daily activities like in politic, commerce, education, etc., using repetition technique, asking the students to write the meaning of difficult words on their notebooks and to bring dictionaries in order that they could look up the meaning of difficult words on their dictionaries, translating every English expressions into Indonesian, asking the meaning of expressions to students, and repeating the meaning of the expressions several times to make the students remember the meaning