Essay : Strategies to Improve Speaking Ability

 

Speaking is the main key in learning English. Without speaking people will not be able to practice a language that they learned. Many people have a problem with speaking ability when they study English. Most of people can understand when they listen in English but when they try to speak they get confused about what will they are going to tell. It caused by several factors such as lack of practice, lack of vocabulary, feel not confident, and so on. However, people can increase speaking with several strategies such as expand the vocabulary, using English in daily conversation, and self-talk in English.

 

First of all,  expand the vocabulary is very helpful to speak in English easier. According to Baker, Simmons, and Kame’enui vocabulary is a strong indicator of students succes (1997). Vocabulary is very important in speaking, because it is helpful to develop  speak fluently, so when someone try to speak they will not get confused about what the vocabulary of a word that they want to say. Vocabulary can expanded by learn new vocabulary that can get in a way reading a lot, so when people found new vocabularies they have try to find the meaning and use it as much as they can. The more vocabulary that is known, the better speaking skill that will get developed.

Second, using English in daily conversation is helped the most to improve speaking ability. Nunan defines speaking as the use of language quincly and confidently with few unnatural pauses, which is called as fluency (2006). Coversation is when someone talking to a person or more. Try with the easier such as talking about daily activites with friends and try to increase speaking with the wider coverage topics. Daily conversation can help people to improve their speaking, because when they try to communicate in English they will trained to using English fluently.

Furthermore, doing self-talk is also the most alternative strategy  to help people improve their speaking ability. Self-talk can doing with talking in front of the mirror and retell about what happened today. People would have used simple past form to retell the story, so people not only use simple present tense but they can learn to using siple past form to increase their speaking. Either, record the voice when we doing speaking, so when we try to listening the record we may know what is needed to be repaired in speaking. By do it everyday at least in five minutes can make the ability of speaking is increased.

In conclusion, people have to do an effort in order can speak fluently. There are many strategies they can do to improve it such as expand vocabulary with find out new vocabularies and apply it in their English, doing daily conversation in order to trained to speak English well, and doing self-talking about what happened today or about what they want to tell. Hence, people must practice a lot in speaking if they want to speak clearly and can mastering English actively.