Pragmatics Approach in Teaching “Maharah Kalam” at Pondok Modern Darul Hikmah Tulungagung

Abstract

Speaking proficiency, maharah kalam, is one of the Arabic teaching goals at Pondok Modern Darul Hikmah Tulungagung. Speaking skill will be better mastered by the understanding of language usage in the daily communication context. Therefore, Pragmatics approach is fruitfully employed in teaching speaking skill. This study aims at describing the Pragmatics approach in teaching speaking skill at PondokModern Darul Hikmah Tulungagung. This study belonged to queasy experiment. Data were collected through doing participation-observation, interview, and test. The result of data analysis revealed that Pragmatics approach in teaching Arabic speaking skill inPondok Modern Darul Hikmah was reflected in the instructional design. This approach was implemented through three programs, namely dialogue (al-hiwar), pattern practice (tathbiq al-namudzaj), and oral practice (tarkib al-syafawi). In addition, there was asignificant difference result of pre-test and post-test. It was assumed as an effect of applying pragmatics approach in teaching maharah kalam at Pondok Modern Darul Hikmah Tulungagung.Keywords:Pragmatics, Speaking Skill, Dialogue, Public SpeakingDOI: 10.19105/ojbs.v12i2.1949A.IntroductionThe aim of teaching maharah kalamis a communicative ability to use Arabicbased on the usage of socialcontexts. These social contexts mean that a speaker could understand the hearer, speech act and the contextof act. Unfortunately, most learners (santri) who learn Arabic for many years, could notuse it based on its context. Why did it happen? Because they learn Arabic structure (the tarkib),they do not use it any contexts of real life.The teachers in this case (ustadz)teach Arabic based on the formal system such as part of speech and its syntax, they do not teach