The effectiveness of communicative language teaching method on students’ speaking ability at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan

Sari, Desliana (2021) The effectiveness of communicative language teaching method on students’ speaking ability at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This study intended to investigate the effect of Communicative Language Teaching Method on Students‘ Speaking Ability at The Eleventh Grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. The problems faced by students in speaking were: 1) Students were lack of practices, participation and motivation when speaking learning activity was ongoing, 2) Students were afraid of making mistakes when speaking English. This study had three formulations of the problem, they were how the students‘ ability in speaking English before learning by using Communicative Language Teaching method is, how the students‘ ability in speaking English after learning by using Communicative Language Teaching method is, and whether there was any significant effect of Communicative Language Teaching method on students‘ speaking ability at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. The purposes of this study were to describe the students‘ ability in speaking English before learning by using Communicative Language Teaching method, to describe the students‘ ability in speaking English after learning by using Communicative Language Teaching method and to examine whether there was significant effect of communicative language teaching method on students‘ speaking ability at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. This study used experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post test design. The population was all of the students at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan. The samples were XI-1 grade as experimental class consisted of 16 students and XI-2 grade as control class consisted of 17 students. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test in speaking test and analyzed by using T-test formula. The result of this study showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher than the mean score of control class after learning by using communicative language teaching method. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 56,18 and the mean score of control class in pre-test was 51,18. Moreover, the mean score of experimental class in post-test was 79,94 and the mean score of control class in post-test was 73,82. In addition, after doing T-test, this study found that tcount > ttable (2,25> 2,04). Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Ha) of this study was accepted, null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It can be concluded that there was effect of communicative language teaching method on students speaking ability at the eleventh grade of MAS An-Nur Padangsidimpuan.

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