English language education department faculty of education and teacher training sunan ampel state islamic university

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Definition of Key Terms
To avoid misunderstanding and gain the same perception,
the researcher provides the following key terms:
1.
Students’ Interest
Interest is giving full attention and feels enjoyable in
something. While students' interest is the students who have a
feeling and emotionally connected in something such as the
material that is shown by the students to participate and learn
well. According to Slameto, interest is a persisting tendency to
pay attention and to enjoy some activities and contents.
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It
means that students who have a high interest in the activity of
the learning process will feel enjoy without any pressure
2. Speaking
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Tri Saswandi, “Teaching Style and Students’ Interest in Learning
English”, 2014.

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Speaking is one major skill in English that needs to be
mastered. Speaking is the process to construct meaning that
includes producing, processing, and receiving information.
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Speaking is the most essential skill in learning a second or
foreign language. It shows that mastering speaking skill is
needed since it plays an important role in applying
communicative competence. In this research, speaking skill is
defined as a students' speaking competence in English Day
Program as the way to improve in English language education
department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
3. English Day Program
English Day Program is an obligation for students to
speak English with her friends, lecturers, and other people in
the major all day long which is collaborating with English
Language Education Department. This program obligates the
students to speak English on every Thursday start from 6 a.m
until 12 p.m.. In the campus area, The program is implemented
in Tarbiyah Faculty especially in English Language Education
major. This activity is released by the student association of the
English Language Education Department since 2016. But, this
research focused on the English day program in the academic
year 2018/2019 because every year it has different regulations
such as the punishment for students who do not speak English.
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M. C. Florez. 1999.
Improving Adult English Language Learners’
Speaking Skills. Center For Adult English Language Acquisition.

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