DOI: 10.7763/IPEDR. 2014. V77. 9 Developing Students’ Speaking Competence in “Food and Beverage Subject” in Palembang Iskandar Rosyidin 1 and Sunda Ariana 2 1 State Polytechnics of Sriwijaya / English Language Centre (ELC) Bina Darma, Indonesia 2 University of Bina Darma, Indonesia Abstract. The title of this research is developing students’ speaking competence in “food and beverage subject” in state polytechnics of sriwijaya. This research aimed at (1) finding out the most applicable teaching model to develop students’ speaking competence, and (2) finding out if the teaching model was effective in developing students’ speaking competence in food and beverage services subjects. The method of this study is Research and Development method. Forty three students of English Department of State Polytechnics of Sriwijaya were chosen purposively as the sample of the study. The data were collected through test, post test, questionnaires, and tryouts. By the help of the four raters, the data were analyzed using t-test. The findings showed that firstly, the students and lecturers of English Department of SPS believed that the new teaching model was effective to develop their competency both in food and beverage and speaking subjects. Secondly, the new teaching provided the students more fun in the teaching and learning process. Finally, there was some improvement in the students’ gained scores between the pre test and the post test which indicated that team teaching model was effective in developing students’ speaking competence in food and beverage subjects. Keywords: Speaking Competence, Food and Beverage Service, Team Teaching. 1. Introduction As a target of most of language students, the ability of conveying the ideas and messages through speaking becomes very urgent to have. For this reason, the teaching of speaking at schools and universities should be prioritized. Many sets of instructions can be made and applied to the teaching of speaking to those who are studying English for Specific Purposes (ESP) like Vocational Senior High Schools, Polytechnics and specific Academies in Indonesia. For them, the ability to communicate in English is in the form of how good someone speaks English in the area of their job. The teaching of speaking seems to be more advantageous if it is presented by giving sets of tasks to students in order to provide them more practices. Harmer (2003:87) [1] states three basic reasons why speaking tasks are beneficial for students: (1) It gives them a chance to rehearse discussions outside the classroom. (2) It provides feedback for both teachers and students, and (3) it’s intrinsically enjoyable. As the English Department of SPS relates to Business, Tourism and Hotel, all the skill subjects must be taught integratively with Business, Tourism and Hotel competencies. The reason to have English skills should be proposed to gain the ability of using English in the area of Business, Tourism and Hotel in order to have skillful graduates. Therefore, the graduate’s ability in speaking English related to those areas proves that they are competent in their professions. The result of the two questionnaires can be seen that the present model is actually helpful for the students (80%) in terms of learning and practicing the skills of Food and beverage and Speaking subjects. However, they are presented separately in which FB subject is in Bahasa Indonesia and Speaking is of course in English but it doesnot develop the students’ competency in communication using English in the content material. It is then strengthened by more than 70% of the students who still have problems with their English in their FB practice. Therefore, they are still not satisfied with this model and propose the new one to help them learn FB with good English (97.8%). They assume that the new model will develop their competency both  Corresponding author. Tel: +62711353414; fax: +62711355918. E-mail address: iskandarrosyidin@yahoo.com. 40