Abstract:
The purposes of this research are to find out graduted students of Kampung Inggris Pare perception of their speaking fluency and investigate how students’ perceive the importance of taking English course in Kampung Inggris Pare. To answer the two research questions. This research designed the qualitative research with descriptive qualitative as the approach. The interview was done to collect the data. The interview questions were adopted from Adriani (2017). The participants were ten selected students who have ever joined English course at least two weeks, from different semester of English education at UNISMA.
First, the result of the data found that graduated students’ of Kampung Inggris Pare have intermediate speaking level and they got improvement after taking course in Kampung Inggris Pare. Such as more confident to speak and can be more fluent in speaking. Some factors that influence their speaking such as afraid of making mistakes, worried about making grammatical errors, feeling nervous and not confident, lack of vocabularies and pronunciation, and lack of practice.
Second, Kampung Inggris Pare could influence students’ speaking skill. Supported environment and friendly tutors out there can help students in learning English. Besides, Pare also applied various strategies in learning speaking different from material taught at school. The material were taught based on students’ speaking level. The students can improve their speaking fluency through English course. Teachers can adapt the learning style from Kampung Inggris Pare to their speaking class. The result of this research can be used as a references for further researchers.
Keywords: Students’ Perception, Speaking Fluency, Kampung Inggris Pare Course.