DEVELOPING SPEAKING MATERIAL THROUGH TASK BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING AT VOCATIONAL HIGH SCOOL IN LUBUKLINGGAU

Abstract

The  objectives  of  this  study  were  (1)  to  design  speaking materials using task based language teaching for SMK Negeri 3 Lubuklinggau and (2) to describe  the  strengths  and  the  weaknesses  of  the  speaking materials using Task Based Language teaching for SMK Negeri 3 Lubuklinggau. This research include to Educational Research and Development (R&D) using a simplified six steps of Borg and Gall’s model (1983).  The result present that  the product relies much  on pertaining the KD of 2013  curriculum  and  the  teacher  expected  that  the  students  need  to  increase speaking skill since they have opportunity to speak English. The speaking materials were in line with students wants. The strengths of this product helped  students  to  improve  their  speaking  skill  especially  the  vocabularies,  the language function and the grammar used in spoken language. The tasks can attract the students to actively involve the teaching and learning process.