Exploring English speaking program in an Islamic boarding school in Kudus

Speaking is a primary aspect of studying a language. A speaking skill need many opportunities to practice. Many schools provide English Club extracurricular facilities as a means of supporting speaking skill. An Islamic boarding Tahfidz Yanbu’ul Qur’an Menawan has a system that students are obligate to speak English in their daily communication. The aims of the research is to find out the purposes, the implementation, strengths, and weaknesses of the English speaking program at Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Yanbu’ul Qur’an Menawan. The formulation of the research problems were: 1) What are purposes of English speaking program? 2) How is the implementation of English speaking program? 3) What are the strengths and weaknesses of English Speaking Program? The Research method: 1) the research design in this study was descriptive research with qualitative approach, 2) the subject of this study was the supervisor and student organization/tutor, 3) The research instruments were observation, interview, and documentation. The research findings were: the description of Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Yanbu’ul Qur’an Menawan. The English program has three purposes. Those are: to create good environment to practice English, to train student correct grammar and pronunciation, to build the students to speak bravely. There are four kinds of implementation English speaking program; those are daily, weekly, monthly, and annual program. There are strengths and weakness in English speaking program. The strengths are; students acquire more new vocabulary, student have good environment in English practice and they are more confident in speaking English, the weakness is in the use of grammar