Teaching English Speaking at Tunas Unggul Junior High School Bandung: A Descriptive Study

The objective of this research is to know and to describe the process of teaching English speaking. It was conducted at Tunas Unggul Junior High School Bandung and used qualitative descriptive method. The data was collected through interview, questionnaire, observation, and documentation. The research found that the school was using combination curriculum between national and institutional curriculum adapted from IB organization. The concept used in this combination curriculum is actually mostly the same with the general concept of national curriculum, and the school with its own uniqueness elaborates it based on the school needs. This combination curriculum deliberately creates English strategies for developing students speaking ability, both in class and out class. The teaching strategies used have been widely influence by communication and students-center strategies. In order to assess their teaching, teacher used both direct and indirect assessment. This measure taken has given much beneficial impact to all parties, particularly teachers and students, for their English speaking development. Therefore, in teaching speaking, it is important for everyone particularly educator to develop their curriculum and teaching strategies which meets to the students nee