THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO EIGHTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 KARANGREJO IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016

Abstract

Speaking is one of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). It means through which learners can communicate with others to achieve certain goals or to express their opinions, intentions, hopes and viewpoints. In addition, people who know a language are referred to as ‘speakers’ of that language. There are many kinds of method for teaching speaking, one of them is communicative language teaching method. The reseacrh problem is there any significant effect of communicative Language Teaching in teaching speaking to the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Karangrejo in academic year 2015/2016. The objectives of the study is to find out significant effect of communicative language teaching in teaching speaking to the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Karangrejo in academic year 2015/2016. In research the researcher used a quantitative research. The population of this research was the eighth garde students at SMPN 1 Karangrejo. It consisted of 350 students. The researcher used a purposive sampling. There were 64 students as sample of this research. There were 32 students as experimental group and 32 students as control group The instrument used in this research is a test. The test is speaking test especially in descriptive text. The study used technique of t-test based on Winarsunu to analyze the data. Then the data is analyzed by using quantitative analysis with the Paired Sample T-Test stated by SPSS 21.0. The finding of effectiveness coefficient of communicative language teaching in teaching speaking, mean score and standard deviation of experimental group were 73.47 and 5.704, while the mean score of control group was 58.40 and the standard deviation was 6.936 There was a significant effect in teaching speaking by using communicative language teaching to the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Karangrejo in academic year 2015/2016. Finally, it could be concluded that there was significant correlation between the students’ mastery of generic structure and their achievement of reading narrative text. The category of the correlation was enough. The researcher hopes that the result of this research will give advantages, and the student will be able to arrange the narrative text to the right order, and get much information. Key Words: Effectiveness, Communicative Language Teaching Method, Teaching Speaking