Abstract :
Teaching speaking is very important because it is the ability to express our
feelings, thoughts and ideas in term of communication. However, the students
usually find the difficulty in expressing their ideas.
Therefore, it is very important to analyze the brainstorming used in the
teaching speaking and the researcher conducts this research that focuses on the
analysis of brainstorming used in the teaching speaking 1 at the English Department
of Muhammadiyah University of Gresik. It has purpose to investigate how
brainstorming used by the lecturers in teaching speaking 1; including the kinds of
brainstorming and whether brainstorming encourages the students' involvement in
speaking or not.
The subjects of this research were the lecturers and the students of speaking 1
at the English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Gresik. In this research,
the researcher used descriptive survey research design. Therefore, the instruments
that were used in this research were observation, questionnaire and interview (for
lecturers).
From the observation, the researcher had already found two kinds of
brainstorming used in the teaching speaking 1, they are as follows: discussing
vocabulary related to the topic of discussion and free association: telling a story,
describing a thing, describing a person, describing a picture, and guessing things
inside a box. Furthermore, the questionnaire showed that the use of brainstorming in
teaching speaking 1 was able to encourage the students' involvement in speaking
class. Based on the explanation above, the researcher concludes that brainstorming
is very useful for teaching speaking, it can motivate the students, develop the
students? speaking, create the students? ideas, make the students focus and
understand about the topic of discussion.