THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF THE TEACHER’S TASKS AND THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT IN THE SPEAKING CLASS

Abstract: A task is a piece of classroom work that involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing, or interacting in the target language which is focused on mobilizing their grammatical knowledge in order to express and convey meaning rather than to manipulate form. Delivering tasks to the students might be a challenge for the teacher. Therefore, this study is aimed to discover whether the clarity of the teacher in delivering tasks can influence the students in understanding and accomplishing the tasks. This article belongs to a case study conducted at English Education Department in a university in Yogyakarta. The participants are one native English teacher and thirteen students at the third semester of their study. In collecting the data, interview, observation, and document analysis were used. The data were analysed by using grounded theory. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the teacher delivers the tasks by using spoken and written ways two up three times using English, the students understand the tasks by listening the spoken instructions and get deep understanding from the written instructions on the handout, and the students accomplish the tasks by following the instructions from the teacher. Keywords: learning tasks, speaking ability, a case stud