The Development of Speaking Skills for Non-Native Speakers of English

Fatimah Azzahra (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau)
M. Ghufron Ghiffari Ghufron (a:1:{s:5:"en_US"s:28:"UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau"})
Putri Meylani Erlan (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau)
Titania Putri Respati (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau)

English Instruction
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): English Instruction

Speaking skills are viewed as motor-receptive and interaction skills in communication. As the rapid growth of technology, especially in the era of big data of Industrial Revolution 4.0, English speaking skills should be improved in order to be able to enhance communication with native speaker as well as non-native speakers in the international community. In the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy environment, how to increase speaking competence and confidence for undergraduate students tends to be a crucial question among instructors. This concern led to a qualitative research design as an action study in a regular course employing a task-based approach. The findings indicated that confidence, creativity of topics, and speaking competence were the key aspects of improvement when speaking to the audience.