the Use of humor in teaching public speaking

Humor is the language style that people use to create comedy or jokes. Humor uses in flexible time and places. It means that people can use humor to change the tense atmosphere becomes pleasant. Humor as a strategy in teaching public speaking that makes students understanding the material quickly, improve speaking skills, and the students pay attention to the material. The lecturer as a facilitator hasthe opportunity to manage the class with kinds of humor and stimulus the students be a participant in the class. This study aimed to investigate kinds of humor and to find out students responses toward the use of humor in teaching public speaking. To answer these questions, the researcher applied a qualitative approach by observing and administering interviews with the 3 students in the fourth semester of English Literature Department in public speaking at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya academic year 2018/2019. The overall finding indicated there are three kinds of humor used by the lecturer. Those are teacher-targeted humor, the external source of humor, and nonverbal humor. Then there are students responses consist of negative responses and positive responses.