The Lecturers' Classroom Management Skills In Teaching Speaking Class

This research aims at exploring the classroom management skills in Speaking Class of the lectures at English Department of UIN Ar-Raniry. This research opens a chance to teachers and students at Speaking Class to give their voices about the learning process experiences that they have. To achieve the aim, qualitative research through a semi-structured interview was employed. The participants of the interview were two speaking class lecturers and ten students from two classes at English Department in UIN Ar-Raniry who have taken Speaking Class. The research findings show that the two lecturers applied seven strategies in English speaking class; they are: Circle model, Discussion (FGD), Debate Class, Sharing experiences, Games, Short video, and the last is Topic Based Presentation. Most of the participants mentioned there were no problems for them when the teachers applied the classroom management in teaching speaking class even some of the participants also explained that they get some problems in speaking class management. from the explanation of the participants, it can be concluded that the problems for them when the teachers applying the class room management in teaching speaking class are: The students feel lazy to follow the rules or the activities and no time that given by the teacher to prepare before speaking. The participants really appreciate their lecturer in applying management class in teaching speaking even though with some suggestion. They hope the lecturer can develop and keep their management class.