Teaching Speaking with Cue Cards: Addressing Strengths and Weaknesses in High School Contexts
Keywords:
Speaking, cue card, teaching procedure, advantages, disadvantagesAbstract
This study aims to describe the implementation, advantages, and disadvantages of the Cue Card in teaching speaking. It uses a descriptive qualitative method involving 36 junior high school students selected purposively. The data collection techniques are observation, semi-structured interviews, and documentation. The researcher uses data display, reduction, conclusion, and verification to analyze the data. The result shows that the implementation of teaching speaking by using cue cards is divided into twenty stages. These advantages are as follows: it allows students to produce sentences and memorize the words more efficiently, the classroom activities are exciting, and it leads students to speak bravely. On the other hand, the disadvantage is that the cue card is still not neat, which might be tricky
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