Promoting College Students' Academic Speaking Skills Through The Crosscultural Multistructural Approach

Gunandi H Sulistyo (Universitas Negeri Malang)

Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan
Vol. 7 No. 3 (2000)

The writing of this article is motivated by the practice in the teaching of speaking skills in the English Department which seems to encounter several challenges, three of which are: absence of cross-cultural contexts, insufficient guidance on the part of the students in organizing ideas, and insufficiency in the instructional framework that the teacher implements to reach the pre-stated goal. To this end, an approach to instruction has been developed, which mainly rests on three theoretical frameworks: knowledge of the world, cultural thought pattern, and cooperative learning