Linguistic Activities for Improve Listening and Speaking Skills

Listening and speaking skills are essential in learning languages, especially Arabic. A language activity needs to be held to support the student's skills. Linguistic activities are all kinds of activities that are implemented to learn a language. The purpose of this research is to uncover and analyze the appropriate activities and the supporting and inhibiting factors of these activities at the "Alfarisi" Arabic course. This research is qualitative research using the case study method because the two researchers discussed deeply and accurately the language activities there which made students able to hear and speak in a limited time. The two researchers used primary sources, namely the head of the course, teachers, organizers, and students, and secondary sources, namely written documents and books related to language activities and the background of the establishment of the course. The data collection method uses observation with direct observation to obtain data about the truth in the course. The structured interview type is a question that is asked by the two researchers to the informant and is installed first in guiding the interview, the document consists of books, magazines, and letters. The results of this research indicate that: Linguistic activities to improve listening skills in the "Alfarisi" Arabic Course include: listening to story, listening to music, listening to conversations. Linguistic activities to improve listening skills include: speech, conversations, storytelling, memorize the tashrif, memorize the conversations, drama, memorize the Qur'an of juz amma, which means 30 juz, and memorize the supplications in prayer. The external motivation in developing listening and speaking skills is motivation, reward, and correction of student speech. The obstacles faced are the lack of memorizing vocabulary; students feel embarrassed; students do not understand the material, the lack of supervisors present in this course, and cultural differences in the student community.