Sita Nurmasitah, Abdurrachman Faridi, Aryo Baskoro Utomo, Pudji Astuti
The aims of the study were to implement the focus group discussion in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) speaking skill for prospective Vocational School teacher and also to find out its effectiveness in improving their English speaking skill in ESP course. Quasi-experimental design was employed in this research. Thirty students of Family Welfare Vocational Education Study Program who were taking ESP course, were divided into two classes; experimental and control class. The research data were collected through interview, observation and the students' speaking assessment. The result showed that the implementation of focus group discussion method in the experimental class effectively increased the students' speaking skill compared to the control class. © 2018 Author(s).
Family Welfare Vocational Education Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
