2.2 Speaking Activities in the Classroom
The English activities are one of opportunities to practice the students’ speaking skill. As Harmer (1984) reports since there were stimulations activities in the classroom for motivating the students, they were increased the self-confidence of being of part in the classroom including answering the question, sharing the idea, and also presentation. Therefore researcher afraid that, if the students do not get enough chances and activities to practice speaking skill in language classroom, they may get discourage soon in learning. Activities and tasks must be designed to expose the students to the aims language and increased students’ motivation to learn the language in class. Harmer (1998) believed that those good speaking activities can motivate students. As Long & Richards (1987) studies that Learner-centered classroom, the study that opens students’ attitude to focus on individual leaning, where students do the talking activities in groups and have to take responsibilities for using communication to complete a task are revealed to be more conductive to language learning
than teacher-centered classes, an organization dedicated to the development of teachers. One task used as an English teaching speaking skill activity is storytelling. It is one of activities that is the best choice which researcher see through the abilities of its.