A Descriptive Study of Speaking Activities in English Conversation Club atSMA N 1 Sragen in Accademic Year 2016/2017
Keyword Speaking activity, english conversation club This study is aimed at describing the speaking activities in English conversation club at SMA N 1 Sragen in academic year 2016/2017. It is conducted to know what the tutor strategies used in English conversation club, what the difficulties faced by the tutor and member in English conversation club, what the members motivated in joining the English conversation club. Based on the pre research, it was found that there are speaking activities namely debate and speech. This extracurricular done one time in a week, that is in Thursday. The activities are being in shifts between debate and speech. There are two teachers as the tutors in English conversation club. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative to analyze the data. The researcher collects the data by observing the speaking activities in English conversation club, conducting the interview, and documenting some important data that support to this research. The data are from interview script, field note, and work plan. The techniques of analyzing data are reduction the data, data analysis, presenting the data and drawing conclusion. The subject of this study is the members joined in the English conversation club at SMA N 1 Sragen. The object of this study focuses on speaking activities in English conversation club. Based on the class observation, interview, and document, the researcher draws some conclusion about the strategy used in speaking activities, the problem and the members motivate. The result of the research shows that English conversation club activities are debate and speech, the strategy used by the tutor in speaking activity in English conversation club is variations for debate activity the tutor use Asian Parliamentary Debate type, and the speech use strategies namely opinion exchange, current event and making a game. There are some problems faced by the tutor also the member in English conversation club. The tutor"s problems are the members" lack of confidence when speaking, correcting the member mistakes well, dividing time between speech and debate activity, the lack of members" consistency in the attendance, while, the members" problems are low selfconfidence, lack of vocabulary, pronunciation.