The Role of Systemic Functional Linguistics in Improving Students' Ability in Speaking Skills

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the role of SFL in improving students' ability in speaking skills. This theory provides guidance for researchers to learn and develop towards improving a student's speaking ability by using the system as a whole to create effective and appropriate instruction. This study applied a qualitative method. The data source were teachers act as the research participants. Some teachers were responsible for delivering the survey questionnaire to the students, and two of them tried some teaching plans from the selected genres that were deliberately designed in three assessable teaching plans related to the development of tenets from SFL in the courses that the writer taught. The finding suggests that Systemic Functional Linguistics can enhance students' quality in speaking skills by improving the quality of speaking assessment, employing language for teaching and learning, and standardizing the score. This study is crucial to be conducted because more attention needs to be paid to the improvement of students' ability in speaking skills. In conclusion, the application of systemic functional linguistics in the class provides a strong basis for students on how to develop, maintain, and manage all types of discourses. Hence, the students may have the ability to speak in different fields.