Students’ Perception On The Implementation Of Authentic Materials In Teaching Speaking (A Case Of The First Semester Students Of English Education Department Of Umk In Academic Year 2014/2015)

Nowadays, learning to speak competently seems to be a priority. Teachers do several ways to achieve the goal. One of them is by providing various resources that can facilitate students in achieving it. Then, the challenge is providing appropriate activities and resources for speaking which will prepare for spontaneous interaction and which will aid the acquisition process. The resources have to encourage the students to be willing to be highly motivated and practice more. One of the resources which can be considered to teach speaking is authentic materials. Using authentic materials for learning language will enable the learners to preview the real language they will face in the real world. And, when they have been used to using those materials, mostly they will succeed in communicating target languages to others. The first semester students of English Education Department are considered to be those who really need assistant to learn English since they are high school fresh graduate. Their English proficiency is needed to be upgraded, and they need experiences in learning English in which interesting resources can be an interesting learning experience that will trigger them to be active especially in speaking. This research is conducted to find out how the influence of teaching speaking using authentic materials on students’ speaking ability. The finding of the research will show how the use of the authentic materials in teaching speaking