The Lecturers’ Approach to Encourage Reluctant Students’ Participation in Speaking Class (A Study at Department of English Language Teaching UIN AR-Raniry)

Speaking is a very important part of foreign language learning. The ability to communicate in a foreign language is important in relaying ideas and thoughts to others and to improve one’s mastery in the language. The pedagogical approach implemented by lecturers plays an important role in creating a conducive and supportive environment that allows students to be motivated to speak in class. The aim of this study is to figure out the approach taken by lecturers to increase student’s participation in speaking class and the adjustments made to encourage reserved students to speak in class. Classroom observation and in-depth interviews with the lecturers were conducted over the course of 9 days. Research findings show that different lecturers use different approaches to teach speaking in class to encourage active participation from students. These different approaches include cooperative language learning which maximizes the use of cooperative activities in smaller groups in class as well as task-based language teaching approach where the language of instruction is used in accomplishing task in class. The research findings show that different approaches yielded different results. The results show that a certain approach is more effective in encouraging students to speak in class. The lecturers argued that teaching approach is necessary during teaching and learning process in order to manage the classroom well, run the class efficiently, and motivate students to actively participate in classroom.