Students' Perception on English Club Program to Support Their Speaking Practice

The aim of this research is to find out the students’ perceptions of English club,to discover the challenge faced and to picture the program activities to support their speaking practice. This study used a qualitative research design to answer all research questions and used to examine questions that can best by verbally describing how participants in a study perceive. In taking the participants, researcher used purposive sampling. There were six participant taken from the students of SMPN 1 Banda Aceh. They were the members of English club. The instrument used to find the data was an interview. The researcher found that English club members had several perceptions to support their speaking practice, such as, the benefits of the English club, how the program works, and the effectiveness of level confidence in speaking after joining English club. Almost all members agree that the English club program provides big positive impact for them, on running the program especially in role play and debate is a very effective way to practice speaking and increasing the confidence in the same time. In addition the members in English club faced several challenges when running running the program to improve their English speaking ability because of that the members should make preparation programs by themselves.