An English Club is one of the suitable forums to explore and improve people’s braveness to speak English in public. In the English club, people will find many different conditions compared to the class room, and it will be a new motivation for them to learn, not only about the theory but also real practice there. People have more chances in the English club to explore their ability like speaking. In English club activities people will be forced to speak in English with other people in that club. When they know that they are able to do that, it will increase people’s confidence and finally they will find that they are brave to speak in public. Nunan (1991:39) argued that success in learning a language is measured in terms of the ability to carry out conversation in the target language. Speaking skill is the priority skill to be learned.
It also
supported by Benwell (2010:1)
“Starting an English club is a great way to make new lasting
friendships and new motivations.
It is important to have good
ESL/EFL friends
because your
confidence
will increase if you do. You will feel more comfortable using
English around people you
trust and have fun with”.
To make English club can run
constantly, it should be managed well started from deciding the time (when and
how long it is conducted), members of English Club, regulation and activities
or materials. Time also plays role in developing of an English club. Because of
tight schedule of learning, sometimes English Club is conducted after school
time. It is not effective because it will make students tired. Duration of time
is also should be considered because if it is too long it will make students
bored. While for members of English Club, Thompson as reported in
VOA Learning English says that the
age and language level of your English club members will make a difference in
what activities you should choose. For clubs with younger participants, more
organized activities might work better. But for clubs with older members, informal
meetings that encourage discussion are effective. It is important to know your
club members and the kinds of interests they have.
The implementation of an
extracurricular such English club also depends on how a principal cares with
this program. Principals have a power to instruct English teacher to design or
conduct English club. The
actions principals take to develop a productive and satisfying work environment
for teachers and desirable learning conditions and outcomes for children
(Greenfield, 1987, 24). It means that principals can make a policy how to
implement an English Club in a school. It is a video of English Club training.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkrN11RF3E
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