The implementation of fishbowl technique to teach English speaking at MTs. Mambaul Ma'arif Banyuates Sampang

Realizing speaking skills as an important skill in learning English, it is essential for English teacher to encourage the students to speak better. In conducting speaking skill, the teacher has to be good facilitator for helping students in mastering speaking skill. It is necessary to use appropriate technique to help them speak better. The teacher used Fishbowl technique to force the students to speak English. This research aims (1) describe the implementation of fishbowl technique (2) Find out the teacher challenges and (3) Analyze the students respond toward the use of Fishbowl technique in English speaking. The method used in this research was qualitative method. The data were collected by doing observation, field note, interview and questionnaire. The finding shows that the results are (1) implementation fishbowl technique to teach speaking is implemented well applying using 8 procedures based on Brozo’s theory within two meetings/observations (2) The teacher has five main challenges which are in terms of deciding topic, preparation, students’ low vocabularies, lack of monitoring and mother tongue used (3) The students respond toward the use of fishbowl technique is showed that the majority of the students strongly agree that fishbowl technique gives more idea to speak. So it can be concluded that the implementation of FBT to teach English speaking by applying 8 procedures is well implemented in spite of there are challenges faced by the teacher in implementing this technique but also the majority of students gave response that FBT can make them more confidence to speak English.