DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE SPEAKING TASKS FOR THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SD N BAKALAN

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The objective of this research study was to develop a set of communicative speaking tasks for the fifth grade students of SD N Bakalan. The four research questions in the study concerned the needs analysis of communicative speaking tasks, the arrangement of the course grid, the draft of the developed tasks, and the review for evaluation of the tasks related to the try-out of the tasks.
This study was Research and Development (R and D). The subjects of the study were the fifth grade students of SD N Bakalan. The instruments of the study were questionnaires supported by a classroom observation. The data were analyzed quantitatively for the questionnaires and qualitatively for the classroom observation. The steps of this study were conducting needs analysis, writing the course grid, developing communicative speaking tasks, evaluating and revising the first draft of the developed tasks, trying out the second draft of the tasks, and evaluating and revising the second draft of the developed tasks.
There are four findings obtained in this study based on the research questions. First, the results of the needs analysis show that the fifth grade students of SD N Bakalan need communicative speaking tasks which can cater their needs and characteristics. Second, the course grid is developed based on the data obtained from the needs analysis and the school-based curriculum which consists of eight aspects. They are topics, standards of competences, basic competences, indicators, language functions, vocabulary words, communicative tasks, and media. The course grid is used as the guideline in developing the communicative speaking tasks. Third, there are four units of communicative speaking tasks which are developed in this study. The units of the tasks are “When do you Have English Lessons?”, “How Much is the Cake?”, “Where is the Post Office?”, and “Can you Sweep the Floor, Please?” Each unit consists of 6 tasks which focus on speaking activities. Fourth, from the evaluation, the developed communicative speaking tasks are categorized as good and very good since the mean scores of the tasks evaluation range from 3.00 to 3.70.

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