Need Analysis: Developing Speaking Skills Training Materials for High School EFL Teacher in Indonesia

Speaking skills are viewed as motor-receptive and interaction skills in
communication. As the rapid growth of technology, especially in the era of big data of
Industrial Revolution 4.0, English speaking skills should be improved in order to be able
to enhance communication with native speaker as well as non-native speakers in the
international community. However, recently, researchers reported that the speaking skills
still remain a big problem for Indonesian students who learn English as a foreign
language. The low-level competence of EFL teachers in Indonesia, more especially in
Toraja Indonesia, in doing their professional tasks is one of the factors that cause that
problem. Therefore, there should be continuous development of speaking training for EFL
Teacher in Toraja Indonesia. The study aims to investigate the EFL teachers’ needs of
speaking skills training materials. A survey questionnaire, observation and interview were
used to analyze the high school EFL teachers’ needs in their speaking training materials.
20 high school EFL teachers from private and public high school in Toraja, Indonesia
were participated in this study. The data were analyzed both quantitatively and
qualitatively. The findings of the existing study reported that teachers do not have enough
adequate and appropriate speaking skills training materials in their career time for
improving their speaking skills. They have some trainings, however those trainings were
only focus on teaching methods, designing lesson plans, implementing new curriculum
and other training materials. On the contrary, they rarely or even never got speaking skills
training. This study found that EFL teachers in Toraja needs training on all components
of speaking skills, where grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and pronunciation are all rated
as high importance and they repoted that they need a specific training material: for helping
them to speak accurately and fluently; to exposure and use the language as well as
improve their English vocabulary; that provide material related to linguistics problems;
that provides a practical application of teaching methods, strategies and techniques as well
as implementing IT in the teaching process; and that be done continuously but required a
low budget and reachable place. The finding of this study suggested valuable implications
for curriculum developers and teachers in developing adequate and appropriate speaking
skills training material for high school EFL teachers in Toraja, Indonesia in order to help
them in improving their speaking skills.