The use of elicitation technique in teaching speaking skills at grade eight junior high school

This study aims to identify and classify of the use of elicitation and to discover the
reasons of using elicitation technique in teaching speaking skills at grade eighth
junior high school. A qualitative case study used in this study. The subject of the
study was one English teacher at SMP Swasta Methodist 9 Medan. The data were
collected for three meeting by using observation, recording and interview. The
data analyzed by Doff (1988) theory of elicitation. The finding of this study shows
that there were three types elicitation technique namely, asking question 22
(55%), asking question combined with picture about 5 (12,5%), asking question
combined with text and dialogues about 13 (32,5%). It means that asking question
placed the highest frequency of use to encourage students to talk. Also, there were
reasons of using elicitation that had gotten from teachers interview namely to
encourage students to participate in the classroom, to know students
understanding, to build students interesting to the material, to motivate the
students to participate by stimulating their curiosity, to activate students’ thinking
or students’ imagination. It can be concluded that there is a positive impact in
class interaction using eliciting techniques. This research will assist teachers in
interacting with students in the teaching and learning process to stimulate
students' speaking in class interactions.