Keywords: English day program, English speaking improvement
Speaking is a linguistic activity to share information because speaking is the productive oral skill in daily life. English day program is a program of language to improve proficiency in speaking. English day program implemented after school because it is including extracurricular activities that organized by an intra student organization. English day program based on habit in female student Wali Songo Islamic boarding school. This research aimed to know the implementation of English Day Program in English Speaking Improvement.
The method of this research was qualitative method. The data was taken from the field research in Wali Songo Islamic Boarding School Ngabar Siman Ponorogo, particularly in the 4th grade of female student Wali Songo Islamic Boarding School. The subjects of this research were 10 students and 1 organizer of language that purposively chosen by the researcher. The data collection used observation and interview techniques.
Based on the research result, English day program consists of idof (mastering vocabulary), conversation, tasji’ullughoh (mastering lesson), public speaking, and language area. The programs are implemented every day and every week. Students always apply what they have already gotten although in the school and extracurricular because all of that connected each other. Students feel that the practices in daily activities are forced but slowly they realize that the activities become their habit. The activities become a good program for language habit skill especially for student’s speaking. Students learn language from the basic until they apply it every day and the environment supports the activities as well. So, the implementation of English day program has been improved well for students’ speaking.
Finally, the researcher gives suggestion that language section should make this program more variety to motivate student fun and love in learning foreign language. Furthermore, LIS should also add facility for student in learning language. Last, the researcher hopes that the result of this study will be useful for the next researcher.