EYL TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN CONDUCTING SPEAKING ASSESSMENTS

This study aimed to describe (1) what is the strategies that teacher’s use in assessing
young learners’ speaking skill (2) To know the problems faced by teacher in
assessing young learners’ speaking skill. Assessing speaking skills for young
learners is one of the difficult tasks in language learning because young learners’
have higher activity levels and easily distracted by others. English teachers need to
be competent in applying strategies in conduct speaking assessment for young
learners’. The research was conducted at SD GenBi School Medan. This research
used descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research was English teacher
of SD GenBi School Medan. The data were obtained through observation, and
interview. The data were analyzed by qualitative data analysis technique which
consists of three events, namely ; data reduction, data presentation, and make a
conclusion of data. The findings showed that the teacher use various strategies when
conducting the speaking assessments, namely; Picture Talks, Story-telling, Oral
Presentations, Answering Open-questions, Mini-dialogues and role-plays, and
Word Repetition Tasks. But in its, the teacher faced some problems. The problem
was time limitation. Furthermore, speaking assessments strategies is very difficult to
address to young learners' whereas teachers must look at young learners' ability to
focus individually. And it took a lot of time.