THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEAKING SKILL IN THE CLASSROOM

Abstract

Speaking is considered to be the most important active skill for a foreign language learning. It is producing utterances for communicating messages. It starts from infancy to be developed during childhood to maturity. Speaking as a collection of micro-skills which include syntax, grammar, morphology, pragmatics or social language, semantics and phonology. Speaking is an interactive process because it requires the involvement of another person unlike listening, reading or writing [1, 56.]. Speaking skill isn't only producing the utterances, but it is the complete process of constructing meanings, producing utterances and receiving and processing information with confidence