Teaching Spoken English to L2 Learners “An Effective Approach: Natural Occurring Conversation”

Abstract

Most EFL teachers have the aims to improve their learners’ ability of English specifically the speaking skill. However, the ability of learning skills is varied according to their background and the environment of target language surrounding them. To teach spoken English effectively, teachers need to pay much attention to the approach used in the lesson. The author therefore conducted a qualitative research to investigate the students’ improvement in speaking competence shown when they are in different contexts i.e. classroom and outside classroom. The study also examined the significant differences in terms of performance of speaking ability in different contexts. The participants consisted of 72 students. Eighteen students were selected by simple random sampling through drawing lots. The sampling size is 25 percent of the population. The researcher carried out the experiment using Natural Occurring Conversation as a Teaching Model to improve the speaking competence of students. The duration of the implementation was 12 weeks excluding the mid-term and final examination. The results revealed that Natural Occurring Conversation as a teaching model helped students to have freedom and confidence when they spoke outside classroom context. However, some students still had difficulty in recognition of the questions when interviewing tourists. They always looked at and read the questions while having a conversation which showed no significant differences in terms of their performance in speaking ability in both in and outside classroom context.