Improving students’ speaking skill by using communicative language teaching approach at grade VIII SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan

Nasution, Akmal Khairani (2015) Improving students’ speaking skill by using communicative language teaching approach at grade VIII SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was talking about improving students’ speaking skill by using Communicative Language Teaching Approach at grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan. Most of students had low motivation in speaking skill, students did not have good strategy in speaking, students’ English words mastery were less in memory, students always used Bataknese in speaking, and students could not produce words directly. This research purposed to describe the students’ achievement in speaking skill and students activities in learning process by using Communicative Language Teaching Approach at Grade VIII SMP N 9 Padangsidimpuan. The methodology used in this research was classroom action research, by implementing the Kemmis design which consisted four steps. They were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. In this research, the researcher used two cycles and each cycle consisted of three meetings. To find out the improvement of students’ speaking skill the researcher used t-test to know the significance of hypothesis. In addition, the participants of this research were the class of VIII-8 consisted of 22 students and also there was collaboration with an English Teacher. Meanwhile, the data were derived among from Speaking tests, observation notes, and also interview. Based on the research result showed the improvement mean score of the students in first test in the first cycle was 50.72 (13.63%) and second test in the second cycle was 79.45 (68.18%). In addition, it can be seen from test of significance of students’ improvement showed to is bigger than ttable: 15.20>2.080. It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Then the result of t-test calculation is bigger than t-table with N = 21 is 2.080. Moreover, Based on observation notes stated that the students got improvement and the students were more active and interested in learning process. Related to the interview result, it could be known that students’ speaking skill had improved. It asserted that by using Communicative Language Teaching Approach improve students’ speaking skill.

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