Yulian, Nova (2015) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHINGAT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMPN 2 JAYANTI. S1 thesis, Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa.

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Abstract

Speaking is called as productive skill. It means the success of learning the language is measured from the students' ability to speak and express the ideas. By active speaking, it is very useful to increase students’ ability that learns English as a first foreign language. The objectives of this research are to describe the teaching learning process and to know the students’ speaking progress through the method. This research was conducted at SMPN 2 Jayanti. The subjects were thirty six students of the seventh grade class D. In the classroom action research, the researcher used pre test to know students’ speaking ability before the treatment and used the test of each cycle to know students’ progress in improvement after the treatment, the test used to collect the quantitative data. Furthermore, the researcher used observation and documentation to collect the qualitative data. The mean score of pre test was 59,9 in which the test of first cycle was 71,1 and the test of second cycle was 77,11. The students’ speaking progress in improvement between pre test and test in first cycle was 36,1%. For the test between first cycle into second cycle was 38,9%. The result of observation was the students active and enjoyed in learning speaking through Communicative Language Teaching in group discussion. Some students who did not understand the material well could ask to their group. They also interested discussing the material with their group rather than doing individually. So, when the students felt comfortable to learn they could improve their speaking skill. In summary, there is improvement on students’ speaking skill through Communicative Language Teaching at SMPN 2 Jayanti. Keywords: Teaching speaking, Communicative Language Teaching, procedure text

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