Hubungan Latar Belakang Sosio-kultural Mahasiswa, Rencana Pembelajaran Semester dan Keterampilan Berbicara = The Interplay of Students’ Sociocultural Background, lecturers Delivery Format and Students’ Speaking Performance

Socio-cultural paradigm is about the human development that can impact the individual in socio interaction. This socio interaction is the value resulted from the socio-culture that has already existed and been applied in a society. It can be said also that its refers to social life which has aspects of customs and habits of the community. Sociocultural background is one of the most scrutinized aspects in teaching and learning process. It helps lectures to know the students’ condition before meeting, need analysis and preparation in their class. This study focuses on describing the interplay of Sociocultural background and students’ speaking performance and also the interplay of Sociocultural background and lecturers delivery format. The result is expected to provide deeper understanding about how the sociocultural background affects the lecturers delivery format, how the sociocultural background, affect the learner’s speaking performance, and how the lectures implement the course guidelines in the classroom context. This study was mix-method design utilizing classroom observation, interviews, documentation and questionnaires as the main data collection tools. The data were collected in English education program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Universitas Sulawesi Barat. It involved the English lecturers and learners in the English speaking subject. The researcher used purposive sampling technique in choosing research samples. There were two English lectures and 50 learners that were taken as samples for this research. The results from the findings revealed that (1) there is an effect of sociocultural background on speaking performance in English Education Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Universitas Sulawesi barat, (2) the social background of students greatly affects the speaking skills in learning English in the classroom, (3) Lecturers’ delivery format was based on the course guidelines are teaching subjects that include one or more subjects to be taught during one or more meetings. The lesson plan contains components of teaching and learning activities, media and teaching and evaluation tools. Lesson plan explains more about the stages in one lecture meeting. These include: introduction, presentation, and closing. Socio-cultral backgroud of learners and lecturers delivery format interplay with learners’ speaking performance because taking the conditions of socio-cultural background of students can help the need of students in learning, which later from needs can be the right consideration in compiling lecturers delivery format which aims to improve students’ speaking ability.

Keywords : Sociocultural Background; Lecturers Delivery Format; Speaking