THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GROUP WORK ACTIVITY IN SPEAKING CLASS AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ABSTRACT This paper was aimed to describe the use of group work technique as an alternative strategy in teaching speaking. Speaking is a process of communication that idea or message can be received well. In English learning context, speaking is one of the important skill for the students because with speaking they can communicate in English.speaking class should make students active during  teaching and learning process.Teaching speaking should improve students communication skill, because through speaking students express themselve in the form of communication. The purpose of teaching speaking by implementing group work activity is can make students learn how to say politely to other people when their idea is differrent from the others. The procedure of teaching speaking through group work activity consist of pre-teaching activities, whilst-teaching activities, and post-teaching activities. Pre teaching activity is the activity that do before teaching process.The purpose of pre-teaching activities is to help students to focus their mind on the lesson by giving some interesting teaching materials in the process of teaching and learning activities.Whilst teaching is the activity which the teacher give the material and the students discussed it in group. Post- teaching activity is intended to review the lesson that they have got in the whilst teaching activity. The teacher should employ group work activity in teaching speaking in order to improve students ability to communicate their ideas orally. The teacher should motivate students to practice their speak to make they convidence to speak English. Key words: Implementation, Group Work Activity, Speaking.